CHAPTER IV.

Young Lama converted to Christianity--Lamasery of 85 Tchortchi--Alms for the Construction of Religious Houses--Aspect of the Buddhist Temples--Recitation of Lama Prayers--Decorations, Paintings, and Sculptures of the Buddhist Temples--Topography of the Great Kouren in the country of the Khalkhas--Journey of the Guison-Tamba to Peking--The Kouren of the Thousand Lamas--Suit between the Lama-King and his Ministers--Purchase of a Kid--Eagles of Tartary--Western Toumet--Agricultural Tartars--Arrival at the Blue Town--Glance at the Mantchou Nation--Mantchou Literature--State of Christianity in Mantchouria--Topography and productions of Eastern Tartary--Skill of the Mantchous with the Bow