Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and a Part of Central AsiaJ. W. Bradley, 1859 - 483 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 226 - These are used to drink the koumis from: some of them hold three pints, others more. On entering a Kirghis yourt in summer, one of the Chinese bowls full of koumis is presented to each guest. It is considered impolite to return the vessel before emptying it, and a good Kirghis is never guilty of this impropriety. The Kirghis begin making koumis in April. The mares are milked at five o'clock in the morning, and at the same hour in the evening, into large leathern pails, which are taken immediately...
الصفحة 228 - I lived in localities where there were many horses and cattle, and used to think a flock of five or six hundred sheep a large one, but was now astonished by the numbers before and around me. The noise at first was almost intolerable : there was the sharp cry of the camels, the neighing of the horses, the bellowing of the bulls, the bleating of the sheep and goats, the barking of the dogs, and the shouting of the men — a very Babel. I counted one hundred and six camels, including their young ; there...
الصفحة 8 - Mine has been a tolerably wide field, extending from Kokhan on the west to the eastern end of the Baikal, and as far south as the Chinese town of Tchin-si, including that immense chain Syan-shan, never before seen by any European, as well as a large portion of the western part of the Gobi, over which...
الصفحة 388 - A well-mounted kirghis held the bearcoote, chained to a perch, which was secured into a socket on his saddle. The eagle had shackles and a hood, and was perfectly quiet ; he was under the charge of two men. Near to the Sultan were his three hunters, or guards, with their rifles ; and around us were a band of about twenty kirghis, in their brightcoloured kalats ; more than half the number were armed with battleaxes. Taking us altogether, we were a wild-looking group, whom most people would rather...
الصفحة 428 - ... well. While we rested the clouds gathered thicker on the mountains, which indicated a coming storm, and made us hasten onward. Our route was still over grassy hills, with broad sweeping valleys running down to the great plain. These, and the Syan-shan Mountains, being obscured, rendered the journey exceedingly monotonous. It was not till the evening of the third day that the clouds rolled off, when the mountains stood out in all their majestic grandeur. We were near the high ridge which had been...
الصفحة 390 - We had not gone far, before a herd of small antelopes were seen feeding on the plain. Again the bird soared up in circles as before — this time I thought to a greater elevation ; and again he made the fatal swoop at his intended victim, and the animal was dead before we reached him. The bearcoote is unerring in his flight : unless the animal can escape into holes in the rocks, as the fox does sometimes, death is his certain doom.
الصفحة 23 - These munitions of war are made with great care and accuracy under the superintendence of very intelligent artillery officers. The barks are built on the bank of the Tchoussowaia with their sides to the stream ; they are flat-bottomed, with straight sides 125 feet long, have a breadth of twenty-five feet, and are from eight to nine feet deep ; the head and stern are formed by a sort of obtuse angle, the ribs of birch-trees selected for the purpose, and the planking of deal : there is not a nail or...
الصفحة 83 - ... their talents for their own benefit, this country might send into civilized Europe numerous works of vast merit. A married man with a family receives two poods of black flour for his wife and one pood for each child, on which they live and look stout. "I have watched men cutting the emerald, topaz, amethyst, aquamarina, and other stones into different shapes ; which they do with perfect accuracy and in good taste. Some of these brilliant gems have no doubt ere this adorned imperial majesty. These...