The world: historical and actual . o live by the chase, fishing,and a rude style of agriculture but little bet- A CHINESE EMPIRE. 44I ter than that practiced by the North AmericanIndians before recent efforts to civilize the latter.In fact, not only in this respect, but in manyothers of their practices in peace and in war, aswell as in physiological distinctions, they bearstriking resemblances to several North Americantribes. Mongolia lies west of Manchuria, on nearly thesame parallels. It has the lofty Altai Mountains inthe north, the snow-covered Ala-shan and Kin-shan subject to the ruling d

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The world: historical and actual . o live by the chase, fishing, and a rude style of agriculture but little bet- A CHINESE EMPIRE. 44I ter than that practiced by the North AmericanIndians before recent efforts to civilize the latter.In fact, not only in this respect, but in manyothers of their practices in peace and in war, aswell as in physiological distinctions, they bearstriking resemblances to several North Americantribes. Mongolia lies west of Manchuria, on nearly thesame parallels. It has the lofty Altai Mountains inthe north, the snow-covered Ala-shan and Kin-shan subject to the ruling dynasty of China, to which theMongols acknowledge hereditary allegiance, whilethey maintain their ancient Tartar form of gov-ernment. South of Mongolia, and directly west of ChinaProper, are piled the mountains of Kokinor amiThibet, with their glaciers surpassing those of allthe world besides, and their intervening fertile valleysand plains and burning deserts. Tibet is the throne-land of the Grand Llama, who is pope to a church of.