Portrait of the Author

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Irkutsk, Siberia

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Post Station at Elantsin

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Our Traveling Carriage while Making the Buriat Journey

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Baggage and Provisions of Convicts

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Convicts Passing through the Village of Usturdi

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Group of Convicts Resting and Lunching

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Buriat Wedding

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People Assembled for the Horse Sacrifice

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Stone Altars on the Hill of Sacrifice

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  I. Horse Sacrifice

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 II. Horse Sacrifice

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III. Horse Sacrifice

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 IV. Horse Sacrifice

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  V. Horse Sacrifice

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 VI. Horse Sacrifice

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Convict Prison at a Post Station

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Buriat Women in Full Dress

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House where we Boarded on Olkhon Island

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The Only Russian Church in Olkhon

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Arkokoff, his Wife, Son, and Son's Wife

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Lazareff and his Relatives

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Kongoroff and his Wife

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Andrei Mihailovitch, Mikiloff and his Young Wife

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Manshut

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Buriat Young Lady, Island of Olkhon

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Ram, Sacrificed as an Offering

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Bones of the Ram, Left to Rot and Fall

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Tea from China, Coming from Kiakhta to the Railroad in Irkutsk

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Buriat Watch Dog

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Andrei Mihailovitch's Field Ongons

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Field Ongons

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Field Ongons, Church in which the Author Spent Three Days, and Group of Houses and Russian Store Mentioned on Page 72

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Vassya, his Father, and the Author

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Drying Fuel—Cow Droppings—Island of Olkhon

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Church near a Post Station on the Road to Lake Baikal

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Our Buriat Friends in the Sacred Island of Olkhon

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Russian Exile and Two Buriat Shamans

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The Author's Carriage

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Village of Alaguersk-rod in Siberia

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A Group of Unmarried Mongol Women or Young Ladies in Usturdi

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Gods which Guard the House from the Outside, Olkhon Island

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Buriat Gods, or Representations of their Gods

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Buriat Household Gods

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Contents of "God Bags"

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Buriats—Husband and Wife in the Hayfield

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Representations of Buriat Gods

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