Show MONGOLS OF KOKO KO KO NOR la abe general of boime men our road first lay through thadis i brict inhabited by the agricultural tribes on the frontier then we entered the country occupied by the mongols of the koko ko ko nor says a writer in the review the there has the richest I 1 have ever seen in any part of thabet but an idyllic pastoral life is by no means practiced by the inhabitants brigandage is the general profession the young men spend their time either in making raids on travelers and on encampments encamp ments of their tribes by which means ahey mostly acquire their cherished horbes or in practicing the art of warfare I 1 witnessed a military tournament at which some riders at full gal lop cirod one after another at a given marlc these mongols Mon gols are tall and fierce looking though they proved amiable when friendly the men shave their heads both men and women dress in a gown of sheepskin girded round the waist high boots of felt and skin boand below the knee with a leathern strap or cotton garter and long felt they wear over the sheepskin when it rains their summer bat ia of white felt in shape something like the top hat worn by the old welch market women the cap they wear in winter is of white astrakhan shaped like a sugar loaf with arad and green cotton brim the women dress their hair in plaits more than a hundred caught together at the ends with a wide band of colored cloth which iff embroidered with gay silks and gold thread and studded with coral and turquoise silver coins and brass buttons which they get from leassa the tents are rohnl the inner sides of trellis work the top of wooden ribs giving an umbrella shape arid the whole covered with white felt with an aperture for a email door of wood and a hole in the roof to let out the himoe |