Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor : and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China with adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the Hunting and Pastoral tribes / by Thomas Witlam Atkinson.

  • Thomas Witlam Atkinson
Date:
1861
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Credit: Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor : and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China with adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the Hunting and Pastoral tribes / by Thomas Witlam Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ASVW^ST TOMBS. :B) Two of tliese tombs are alike both in form and dimensions. Idiey are circular on the plan, and conical, or mor? pro- perly an elongated dome, with an aperture on the top. From the ground to the apex of the dome the height is about fifty-five feet; on the south side, and about eight feet from the ground, there is an opening four feet square, and higher up in the dome there is another about two feet square. I succeeded in entering the tomb through the lower aperture, and found the Tombs of the Gonii. interior diameter twenty-one feet. The wails are four feet thick, and built of stone obtained from rocks near at hand. In the centre of the tomb there are two graves, nine feet long and three feet six inches wide, and on each side of these are three other graves six feet long. The Kirghis say the two large ones contaii] the Genii, and the smaller ones are the sepulchres of six inferior spirits, their attendants, who were sacrificed when the former were overpowered by the Genii of D 4
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