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journey round if need so be, so as not to come nigh them; 

 for they are to be treated with the greatest respect. Well, 

 when the lord sets out from the park on the 28th of August, 

 as I told you, the milk of all those mares is taken and sprinkled 

 on the ground. And this is done on the injunction of the 



FIG. 53. A Buriat Horseman 1 . 



Idolaters and Idol-priests, who say that it is an excellent thing 

 to sprinkle that milk on the ground every 28th of August, so 



1 This and the two following illustrations are from photographs kindly lent 

 me by my friend Mr C. H. Hawes, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, well known 

 for his In the Uttermost East (in which two of the same scenes are shown, 

 pp. 441-9). 



