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fixed, but as the winter approaches remove to the plains of a warmer region iii order to find 

 sufficient pasture for their cattle; and in summer they frequent cold situations in the 

 mountains, where there are water and verdure, and their cattle are free from the 

 annoyance of horse-flies and other biting insects. During two or three months they 

 progressively ascend higher ground and seek fresh pastures, the grass not being adequate in 

 one place to feed the multitude of which their flocks and herds consist. Their huts or tents 

 are formed of rods covered with felt; and being exactly round if nicely put together, they can 

 gather them into one bundle, and make them up as packages [a process which the present 

 writer witnessed in Berlin at the interesting Exhibition of Kirghese by Herr Gebrink at 

 the Flora Garten, Charlottenberg], which they carry along with them in their migrations 

 upon a sort of car with four wheels. When they have occasion to set up these again, they 

 always make the entrance front to the south. Besides these cars they have a superior kind of 

 vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with felt, and so effectually as to protect those 

 within it from wet during a whole day of rain. They are drawn by oxen and camels, and 

 serve to convey their wives and children, their utensils, and such provisions as they require. 

 The women attend to their trading concerns, buy and sell, and provide everything necessary 

 for their husbands and their families, the time of the men being entirely devoted to the 

 employment of hunting and hawking, and matters that relate to military life. They have the 

 best falcons in the world, and also the best dogs. They subsist entirely upon flesh and milk, 

 eating the produce of. their sport, and certain small animals not unlike rabbits, called by our 



By permission of the JRoyal Geographical Hod 



A GROUP OF MONGOLS. 



