Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Thibet in 1891 and 1892
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... is a Tosalakji who receives his from the Hsi-ning Amban. Under this latter officer are Hosho-dzangi, Mirin, Jdlang and Sumen-dzangi appointed by the head of the tribe hosho), who also gives them official buttons of rank. April 27.--There is quite a difference in the Mongol spoken here in Baron and that of Shang, not only in the pronunciation, but also in the vocabulary. Then there are tabooed words. Thus in Baron Ts'aidam, salt is called hsiu, not ddbesu, because the latter word entered into the name of the grandfather of the present chief. A number of similar cases have been mentioned to me.f I paid my last visit to the Dzassak to-day; he has proved himself a great bore and a terrible beggar, and, considering that I have got absolutely nothing out of him, he has made a pretty good thing out of my visit. The lama who is reading for his benefit the one hundred and eight big volumes of the Kandjur, which it takes him about a year to drone through, told me that he got for the job, besides board and lodging, ten ounces of silver and a piece of pulo of about 5 taels value. The Dzassak told me that he had heard that some robbers had some time ago stolen a horse from my K'amba friend Nyam-ts'o Purdung. The old chief took the revolver I had given him in '89 and, accompanied by two of his sons, followed them up, wounded two of them and got his pony back. Since then his thieving neighbors, the Golok, had been so filled with dread of him that they had left him in perfect peace, for, they said, the foreign gun he had got from the p'yling can kill a hundred men at a shot. The sons of chiefs (i. e., Wang, Kung, Beile, Dzassak, etc) bear the courtesy title of Taichi in the Ts'aidam. t Tibetan words are of frequent occurrence in Ts'aidam Mongol, for example: ma lung, "ea...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235627620
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235627624
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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