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THIS is the work of two Chinese men of science, Chjanmu, or Shi-chjou, author of a history of Jinghiz khan's conquests, and Khe-tsyu-tao, author of several geographical works, of which the description of the northern borderlands is best known. It was published in China in 1867, and consists of two parts: a description of the different tribes and confederations into which the Mongols are divided, with short notes on the extent of the territories they occupy, and short historical notices—the whole covering only about 160 pages of the Russian edition—and a great number of most interesting foot notes, which cover more than two-thirds of the volume, and contain a great variety of miscellaneous geographical and historical information.
Men-gu-yu-mu-tsi; or, Memoirs of the Mongol Encampments.
Translated from the Chinese by P. S. Popov., Russian General Consul at Peking. 580 pp. (Memoirs of the Russian Geographical Society, vol. xxiv.; Russian.) (St. Petersburg, 1895.)
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Men-gu-yu-mu-tsi; or, Memoirs of the Mongol Encampments. Nature 52, 340 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052340b0
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