Excerpt from Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, Vol. 2: During the Years 1844-5-6; Illustrated With Fifty Engravings on Wood

Caravan of Khalkha-Tartars - Son of the King of Koukou-Noor - Sandara the Bearded - Two Thousand Oxen Are Stolen from the Houng-Mao-Eul, or Long Hairs - Fearful Tumult at Tang-Keou-Eul - Description and Character of the Long Hairs - Feasts of the First Day of the Year - Departure for the Lamasery of Kounboum - Arrival at Night - Old Akaye - The Kitat-Lama - The Stammerer - Pilgrims at Kounboum -Description of the Feast of Flowers.

The Houses of Repose are very numerous in the small town of Tang-Keou-Eul, by reason of the great number of strangers, who are drawn thither from all quarters by commerce. It was in one of these establishments, kept by a family of Mussulmans, that we went to lodge.

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