Travelogues; . 82 ST. PETERSBURG reached by any unbeliever until 1904. We know little of thisfamous place beyond what is told by a few crude, colored sketchesmade by a devout Buddhist, a pilgrim to Lhassa from oneof the Asiatic provinces of the Tsar. Apparently the Prince is on the best of terms with theGrand Lama, for on the very day of our visit there arrived,direct from far-away Tibet, two young Mongolian wild horses,. BEFORE THE REVIEW a gift from the so-called Living-God of Lhassa to hisfriend, the learned and influential Russian Prince. Dazzledand for the moment docile, the animals, as w
Travelogues; . 82 ST. PETERSBURG reached by any unbeliever until 1904. We know little of thisfamous place beyond what is told by a few crude, colored sketchesmade by a devout Buddhist, a pilgrim to Lhassa from oneof the Asiatic provinces of the Tsar. Apparently the Prince is on the best of terms with theGrand Lama, for on the very day of our visit there arrived,direct from far-away Tibet, two young Mongolian wild horses,. BEFORE THE REVIEW a gift from the so-called Living-God of Lhassa to hisfriend, the learned and influential Russian Prince. Dazzledand for the moment docile, the animals, as we see them inthe courtyard, do not uphold their reputation as the mostsavage of their kind ; but the old man who came with themfrom Asia tells of many fearful things that these untamablebrutes have done. Strangely enough, the very day these ST. PETERSBURG 83 shaggy colts arrived, — the first ever successfully exported,—two representatives of Hagenbecks Menagerie reachedPetersburg, en route to Mongolia, their mission being tosecure if possible a pair of these wild horses. I fear, had Ibeen in the Princes place, I should have cut short thejourney of the circus-men by turning over to them theseembarrassing gifts of the Grand Lama.
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