Communism -- Soviet Union; Mongolia -- Description and travel
Pogrom.--A wholesale slaughter of unarmed people; a massacre.
Paspa.--The founder of the Yellow Sect, predominating now in the Lamaite
faith.
Sait.--A Mongolian governor.
Salga.--A sand partridge.
Sayn.--“Good day!” “Good morning!” “Good evening!” All right; good.
Taiga.--A Siberian word for forest.
Taimen.--A species of big trout, reaching 120 pounds.
Ta Lama.--Literally: “the great priest,” but it means now “a doctor of
medicine.”
Tashur.--A strong bamboo stick.
Turpan.--The red wild goose or Lama-goose.
Tzagan.--White.
Tzara.--A document, giving the right to receive horses and oulatchens at
the post stations.
Tsirik.--Mongolian soldiers mobilized by levy.
Tzuren.--A doctor-poisoner.
Ulan.--Red.
Urga.--The name of the capital of Mongolia; (2) a kind of Mongolian
lasso.
Vatannen.--The language of the Subterranean State of the King of the
World.
Wapiti.--The American elk.
Yurta.--The common Mongolian tent or house, made of felt.
Zahachine.--A West Mongolian wandering tribe.
Zaberega.--The ice-mountains formed along the shores of a river in
spring.
Zikkurat.--A high tower of Babylonish style.
End of Project Gutenberg’s Beasts, Men and Gods, by Ferdinand Ossendowski
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