CHINESE OFFICIALS AT HARBIN WHO WELCOMED TO ASIATIC SOIL THE AMERICAN 

 MISSION ON ITS WAY TO PETROGRAD 



Photographs by C. S. Stilwell 

 BURYAT PRINCES ASSEMBLED TO GREET THE AMERICAN MISSION UPON ITS ARRIVAL 



IN MANCHURIA 



A Mongolian race, residing in the Baikal Lake region, the Buryats long opposed the 

 advent oi the Russians: but in the closing years of the seventeenth century they finally 

 submitted to their European overlords and are now considered among the most peaceful of 

 Russian peoples. 



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