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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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saw them in those remoter desert tracts through
which they again and again passed in their
marches westward. Had these Mongols de-
generated from what they once had been?
Were they the mere embers of a fiery race?
and was that fire latent or extinct? These
were questions which often puzzled me as I
looked on the dirty ragged individual who
came begging to me and went away satisfied
when my servants gave them brown paper for
tobacco, and old lime-juice bottles as valuable
presents.
On reading over the accounts of the Mongols
in the zenith of their power, I see no reason to
think that those who followed Chengiz Khan
were so very different from those I saw to-day.
Dull, heavy, and indolent as these latter are,
they have at any rate the attribute of hardiness.
They are still capable, by living on the fermented
milk of mares, called kumiss, of carrying out
prodigious marches. And they are probably
to-day just as capable of committing the bar-
barous cruelties for which they were famous as
they were in the days of Chengiz. The great
mass of the Mongols are probably very much
the same to-day as they were at the time of the
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