The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 69National Geographic Society, 1936 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... valley of valleys , the nomad paradise of Central Asia . My eye sought the opposite valley wall , above which the foothills of the Celestial Mountains leveled off to a great plain which stretched away to meet the snow line . On that ...
... valley of valleys , the nomad paradise of Central Asia . My eye sought the opposite valley wall , above which the foothills of the Celestial Mountains leveled off to a great plain which stretched away to meet the snow line . On that ...
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... VALLEY CARPENTER'S ONLY TOOL The. the border in Russian Kirghizistan , while the Kazaks have migrated from the dry steppes of Kazakistan , in southern Siberia . A KIRGHIZ OPINION OF THE KALMUCKS " The Kalmucks , or Mongols , in the other ...
... VALLEY CARPENTER'S ONLY TOOL The. the border in Russian Kirghizistan , while the Kazaks have migrated from the dry steppes of Kazakistan , in southern Siberia . A KIRGHIZ OPINION OF THE KALMUCKS " The Kalmucks , or Mongols , in the other ...
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... valley , " said Sayjan Beg . " Incidentally , he is the only one of us Kirghiz who knows the Kalmuck tongue , has learned the mysteries of their Buddha , and can explain their strange and evil customs ; time will go swiftly for you here ...
... valley , " said Sayjan Beg . " Incidentally , he is the only one of us Kirghiz who knows the Kalmuck tongue , has learned the mysteries of their Buddha , and can explain their strange and evil customs ; time will go swiftly for you here ...
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