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THIS IS the second of a series of volumes on Mongolia and its inhabitants which are being prepared by Dr. A. Pozdnéeff, and it contains the traveller's diaries during the second year of his journey, when South-eastern and Eastern Mongolia were visited. Starting from Pekin, Dr. Pozdnéeff went to Kalgan—the centre and depot for Russian trade with China—and thence to Kuku-khoto, or Gui-hua-chen, the next important commercial centre of Southern Mongolia. Returning to Kalgan, he visited that portion of Mongolia which lies on the eastern slopes of the Great Khingan—namely, the towns Fen-nin-sian and Zhe-ho, or Chen-de-fu, whence he went to Dolon-nor (Lama-miao). All, these places are well known long since, but, speaking currently Mongolian, Dr. Pozdnéeff has learned much more about the trade in these towns than other travellers had before him, and having, moreover, in his capacity of learned Mongolist a free access to the Lamaite monasteries, he was enabled to collect a great amount of information about the inner life of Mongolia, various questions of worship, and especially about the antiquities preserved in the monasteries. Proceeding from Dolon-nor northwards and north-westwards, towards the Kerulen River, he visited the ruins of Kai-pin-fu—the thirteenth century capital of Khubilai-khan—and obtained there full casts and photographs of an interesting inscription dating from the fourteenth century. Another very interesting Tibetan and Mongolian inscription, dating from 1626, was copied in tthe same way at Tsagan-suburga, on the Shara-muren River. It may now be taken that this much-controversed spot was one of the five Lao or Kidan capitals—Lin-han-fu.
Mongolia and the Mongols: Results of an Expedition to Mongolia in the Years 1892 and 1893.
By A. Pozdnéeff. Vol. ii. 8vo. Pp. 516. Numerous photoengravings (Russian, 1900).
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K., P. Mongolia and the Mongols: Results of an Expedition to Mongolia in the Years 1892 and 1893 . Nature 63, 608 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063608a0
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