Unknown Mongolia : a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria . Lamaism lies the chiefcause of the present poverty-stricken state of the nomadtribes. As another and additional proof of this we havean example of a tribe living near by, who are neitherBuddhists nor, by any means, decadent. Side by sidewith the Mongols, and living under the same environ-ment, is the Turkish tribe of Kirei-Kirghiz, a nomadpeople whose mode of life exactly resembles that ofthe Mongols, but whose state of well-being and con-tinued progress stands in direct contrast to that of theMongols—
Unknown Mongolia : a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria . Lamaism lies the chiefcause of the present poverty-stricken state of the nomadtribes. As another and additional proof of this we havean example of a tribe living near by, who are neitherBuddhists nor, by any means, decadent. Side by sidewith the Mongols, and living under the same environ-ment, is the Turkish tribe of Kirei-Kirghiz, a nomadpeople whose mode of life exactly resembles that ofthe Mongols, but whose state of well-being and con-tinued progress stands in direct contrast to that of theMongols—these Kerei being Mohammedans. We visited Mongolia before the Revolution of 1911;since that date surprising changes have taken placein the political situation of Outer Mongolia. At thepresent moment the future of this country appears tohang in the balance. During the present year, thepower of the Manchu has fallen, the suzerainty of thenew party has been questioned, and even Revolution in China has given the opportunityfor the Mongol tribesmen to strike for independence;. MONGOL HAGS.
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