CHAPTER III.

Festival of the Loaves of the Moon--Entertainment in a 61 Mongol Tent--Toolholos, or Rhapsodists of Tartary--Invocation to Timour--Tartar Education--Industry of the Women--Mongols in quest of missing Animals--Remains of an abandoned City--Road from Peking to Kiaktha--Commerce between China and Russia--Russian Convent at Peking--A Tartar solicits us to cure his Mother from a dangerous Illness--Tartar Physicians--The Intermittent Fever Devil--Various forms of Sepulture in use among the Mongols--Lamasery of the Five Towers--Obsequies of the Tartar Kings--Origin of the kingdom of Efe--Gymnastic Exercises of the Tartars--Encounter with three Wolves--Mongol Carts