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Among the Mongols

James Gilmour

  • Published 1883
  • 8 hrs 46 min
  • 33 chapters
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  • Memoir
  • Travel
  • Mongolia
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James Gilmour went out to Mongolia for the London Missionary Society in 1870 and made its people his life's work, crossing the Gobi by camel, wintering among the Buriats of Siberia, and living for months at a time as a lodger in Mongol tents.

The book he brought back is not a mission report but a portrait of a people: the etiquette of the tent and the snuff-bottle, lamas and living Buddhas, weddings and courts and prisons, fireside tales and the long silence of the plain. Few outsiders of his century knew ordinary Mongol life so well, and none wrote it down with more affection.

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Chapters

  1. Preface3 min
  2. First Acquaintance with Mongolia13 min
  3. Picking Up Mongolian27 min
  4. The Baikal in Winter11 min
  5. Traces of the Old Buriat Mission25 min
  6. Learning to Ride31 min
  7. A Night in a Mongol's Tent7 min
  8. Buying Experience16 min
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  1. How to Travel in Mongolia16 min
  2. Dining with a Mongol6 min
  3. Appeal to a Mongol Mandarin13 min
  4. Lama Miao8 min
  5. Urga14 min
  6. Wu T'ai Shan18 min
  7. Kalgan18 min
  8. Doctoring the Mongols38 min
  9. The Gospel in Mongolia10 min
  10. Mongols' Difficulties About Christianity18 min
  11. Mongolian Buddhism48 min
  12. The First of the White Month12 min
  13. Norbo's Marriage13 min
  14. Friendly Mongols13 min
  15. Thieves in Mongolia13 min
  16. A Mongol Court of Justice14 min
  17. A Mongol Prison13 min
  18. Whisky in Mongolia10 min
  19. The Midsummer Festival19 min
  20. Mongol Toilet9 min
  21. Aesop in Mongolia15 min
  22. Mongol Stories16 min
  23. Wolves in Mongolia13 min
  24. The Mongols in Peking9 min
  25. Mongolia's Two Neighbours, Russia and China16 min

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What is Among the Mongols about?
A Scottish missionary's account of years spent living in Mongol tents in the 1870s: learning the language, crossing the Gobi, doctoring the sick, and recording the daily life, beliefs, and fireside stories of the Mongols. Written by James Gilmour and first published in 1883.
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