KALMUKS 



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Agatch, and sending us provisions from Ongudai. 

 The Kalmuks dress in a very peculiar manner ; they 

 wear, winter and summer, a large sheepskin coat 



KALMUK ZAISSAN. 



confined round the body by a leather strap ; in 

 summer they let the upper part of it drop, thus going 

 about naked to the waist. Rich Kalmuks wear a 

 soft shirt underneath. A fur cap is their ordinary 



