Identifier: russianroadtochi00bateuoft (find matches)
Title: The Russian road to China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bates, Lindon Wallace, 1883-1915
Subjects: Trans-Siberian railroad Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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een, for it is one of the most holy places ofthe Lama faith. It is the temple of Maidari, theFuture God. If the gaspadine wishes to see it, I,who have bought wool from the uncle of the keeperof the gate, can gain admittance. For this we start. The Russian section, madeup of shops with posters and signs in Slavonicletters, and homes with centre chimneys and littlesquare panes of glass, is left behind. Through along dark lane we come out into the main thorough-fare of Mongol Urga. The town is in festival forthe New Moon. The streets are ablaze with color.Red posters are on every door and wall. The bril-liant picture is framed by the snowy girding hillsand the green trees of the Holy Mountain to thesouth. The tomb-like altars on the plain are daz-zlingly white against the gray-plastered fronts ofthe houses behind. The gilded gargoyles of thetemples flash in the sun. Down the main street,a hundred feet broad, go bevies of girls, their hairbedecked with the gaudiest ornaments of silver and
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W CO < <; oa; « H THE CITY OF THE REBORN GOD 229 pearl, their silken robes striped and banded ingreen alternating with yellow and blue and gold.Lamas stride here and there dressed in brightorange robes and hats, their silver knives hangingat their sides. Great shaggy-haired dromedariesswing past. Horsemen, robed in vivid scarlet andblue and magenta, dash at full gallop across thewide open piazza in the centre of the town. Adonkey-cart is driven slowly along, crowded withbrightly-dressed girls. A squad of Chinese cavalrytrot by in white jackets, red-lettered. Two of theCossack garrison swagger past. A bearded Siberiantrader strolls across, clothed in the dark Mongoliancloak which most have adopted, going toward theRussian quarter we have just left. A string of oxenplods by, drawing cartloads of wood. Walking on, we come to a long line of kioskswhich a continuous procession of pilgrims in holidayattire is entering. In each booth is a cask-shapedprayer-wheel, a magnified model of

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