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[Grenard says (II

[Grenard says (II. p. 256) the most powerful and most feared of sorcerers
[in Chinese Turkestan] is the _djduger_, who, to produce rain or fine
weather, uses a jade stone, given by Noah to Japhet. Grenard adds (II.
406-407) there are sorcerers (Ngag-pa-snags-pa) whose specialty is to make
rain fall; they are similar to the Turkish _Yadachi_ and like […]

[The phenomenal rise in the production of the Baku oil-fields between

[4] On the contrary, he considered the photographs interesting, as showing

Writing under date 15th February, 1892, from Lusar (coming from Sining),

[4] Usually written _Polii_, which is nonsense

We may observe that the idea which Joinville picked up in the East about

We may observe that the number of the ancient instruments mentioned in the

CHAPTER XXVIII

NOTE 3

Kamul appears to have been the see of a Nestorian bishop