MAXCHU TARTARS. 
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species not yet described, remains for the present a 
mystery. 
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The Manclm Tartars arc strongly made and 
active, as befits the life they lead, for are they 
not all hunters and well acquainted with the 
chase? Their rifle and their wolf-like dogs are 
their constant companions. The men chiefly 
difler from their Chinese associates in their 
lank black hair being parted in the middle, and 
hanging down behind in two long plaited tails. 
Their dress is similar to that of the Chinese, and 
they are never without a knife and a tobacco- 
pouch adorned with blue beads. Snakes being 
troublesome in the long grass they bind straw round 
their legs like Irish reapers. 
The Manchu women we met were clothed in loose 
blue jackets, close round the neck, and reaching 
as far as the waist, and fastened with loops on the 
right side ; a petticoat of a bright red reaching half 
way below the knee. Their legs were bound round 
with straw as a defence against snake-bites, and 
