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. 1850 Excerpt: ... general name of Tartary. The Mongols now occupy the pastoral districts bounded on the north by the great Desert of Shamo. 5. The personal aspect of the Mongols is strange and almost deformed. Their faces are broad, flat and square, with high cheek-bones, a flat nose, small and sharp black eyes, set obliquely, thick ...
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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. 1850 Excerpt: ... general name of Tartary. The Mongols now occupy the pastoral districts bounded on the north by the great Desert of Shamo. 5. The personal aspect of the Mongols is strange and almost deformed. Their faces are broad, flat and square, with high cheek-bones, a flat nose, small and sharp black eyes, set obliquely, thick lips, and scanty black hair. The Calmucks, the Kalkas, the Eluths and the Burats; are branches of the great Mongol family. 6. The Turks are a much handsomer race, having none of the Mongol deformities, but clear, ruddy complexions. The present tribes in Tartary are divided, chiefly, into the Uzbeks, the Turkomans, and the Kuznauks. The Mantchoos have the Mongol features, with a fairer complexion; they are considered as of the Mongol stock. 7. Although this great variety exists in the external appearance of these races, yet they all agree, to a certain extent, in manners and mode of life. The same wandering, pastoral, equestrian habits, the same division into tribes, the same absolute sway of their khans, unite in fixing a similar character on all the nations which bear the name of Tartar. 8. Among some of the tribes, many customs, similar to those of our Indians, are found, leading to the belief that the latter derived their ancestry from Tartary. 3. What is said of the Mantchoos? 4. Of the Mongols and '. Turks7 5. What is the personal appearance of the Mongols? 6. What of the Turks? 7. In what respect do these different ra-', ces resemble each other? 8. What of the American Indians? 1. China is a very large country, in the eastern part of Asia. On the north, a stupendous wall, 1250 miles China is remarkable as being the most populous empire in the world. It embraces China Proper, Corea, Chinese Tartary and Thibet. It is'therefore not on...
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