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TARTAR NOMADS. 89 



homes in " Hund(5s/' as that part of Tibet lying beyond the 

 iinountain-passes of the Gurhwal and Kumaon provinces is 

 called. A wild, queer-looking lot these Tartars were, with 

 their flat, ugly, but good-humoured countenances, small eyes, 

 ipig-tails, and peculiar dress. The latter generally consisted 

 of a loose garment of coarse woollen stuff of a dirty purplish 

 hue, confined at the waist by a girdle of cloth or a belt. In 

 this was stuck a tobacco-pipe, about 8 or 10 inches long, 

 with a very small brass bowl, and mouthpiece of the same 

 material. Depending from it was also a " chuckmuck." This 

 useful appendage — which, together with the pipe, and a wool- 

 spindle, these people are never without — is a steel attached 

 to a small leathern pocket containing a flint and tinder. It 



Tibetan " Chuckmuck,'' for striking a light. 



'is often ornamented with red cloth covered with open work 

 of silver or brass, and fastened to the girdle by a leather 

 thong or metal chain. The rest of their apparel consisted of 

 long woollen boots, fastened below the knee, and soled with 

 raw hide ; and a small cap either of felt or woollen cloth, 

 sometimes with fur-lined lappets for covering the ears. Some 

 of these people were rather profusely adorned with rude 



