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PLATE LXII.
A FEMALE BRATZKIYE.
A X O T H E R branch of the Mongolian nations has fixed its residence
about fifty degrees to the east of the Kalmuks, and nearly in the same
latitude. The!se are called Bratzkiye, Buroeti, or Barga-Bouriats. Like
the other Mongoles, these fled before the victorious arms of Tchinguis-
Kan, and took refuge in the wild and mountainous region on the
north side of the Lake Baikal, which tliey still inhabit. This powerful
tribe, in consequence of the Border Treaty, is now subject to the
dominion of Russia, and forms the numerous heathen people in the
government of Irkutsk, where it inhabits the region of the Enissey,
along the Mongole Chinese borders on the Angara, Tunguska, and
the Upper Lena, about the southern Baikal, on the Selenga, the
Argoon, and its rivers.
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