. The awakening of China . ga, ashrine for pilgrimage, the residence of a living Buddha,and Kiachta and Kalgan, terminal points of the caravanroute already referred to. Kiachta is a double town—one-half of it on eachside of the Russo-Chinese boundary—^presenting instriking contrast the magnificence of a Russian cityand the poverty and filth of a Tartar whole country is called in Chinese the land ofgrass. Its inhabitants have sheepfolds and cattleranches, but neither fields nor houses, unless tents andtemporary huts may be so designated. To this day,nomadic in their habits, they
. The awakening of China . ga, ashrine for pilgrimage, the residence of a living Buddha,and Kiachta and Kalgan, terminal points of the caravanroute already referred to. Kiachta is a double town—one-half of it on eachside of the Russo-Chinese boundary—^presenting instriking contrast the magnificence of a Russian cityand the poverty and filth of a Tartar whole country is called in Chinese the land ofgrass. Its inhabitants have sheepfolds and cattleranches, but neither fields nor houses, unless tents andtemporary huts may be so designated. To this day,nomadic in their habits, they migrate from place toplace with their flocks and herds as the exigencies ofwater and pasturage may require. Lines of demarcation exist for large tracts belongingto a tribe, but no minor divisions such as individualholdings. The members of a clan all enjoy their graz-ing range in common, and hold themselves ready tofight for the rights of their chieftain. Bloody feudslasting for generations, such as would rival those of. OUTLYING TERRITORIES 59 the Scottish clans, are not of infrequent Manchu overlord treats these tribal conflictswith sublime indifference, as he does the village wars inChina. The Mongolian chiefs, or princes as they arecalled, are forty-eight in number. The forty-eightprinces is a phrase as familiar to the Chinese ear asthe eighteen provinces is to ours. Like the^Manchusthey are arranged in groups under eight of them took part in the conquest, butthe Manchus are too suspicious to permit themto do garrison duty in the Middle Kingdom, lest thememories of Kublai Khan and his glory shotdd beawakened. They are, however, held liable to militaryservice. Seng Ko Lin Sin (Sam CoUinson as theBritish dubbed him), a Lama prince, headed the north-em armies against the Tai-ping rebels and afterwardssuffered defeat at the hands of the British and Frenchbefore the gates of Peking. In the winter the Mongol princes come with theirclansmen to reve
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