MONGOL GIRL. 



Madame de Bourboulon, who accompanied her husband across Northern Mongolia on 

 their way from Shanghai to Moscow in 1862, describes the occupants of a Yurta as follows : 



'They wore vests of green and red velvet, and over these a long robe of violet silk falling 

 to the feet, which were shod with boots of purple leather decorated with glass beads. Their 

 costume was in other respects the same as their father's, with the exception of their long 

 and fine black hair divided into numberless small tresses, intermixed with ribbons and coral 

 beads." — /,,■ 'lour du Monde, xi. p. 248. 



