Kalmucks

-- Andamanese Labor Scene. resisted the encroachments and innovations of civilization, and among them many of these, to us peculiar positions, are still retained by parturient women; but, like the Indian brave, the Asiatic warrior is little inclined to assist his suffering partner; only among the Kalmucks is the parturient woman delivered in the lap of an assistant.

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884

Yes; I will tell you of two German missionaries, who tried to convert a tribe of Tartars called the Kalmucks, living near the Caspian Sea and the river Volga.

Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

The roving gray eyes, deep-sunken, and hidden by bushy black brows, were like those of the Kalmucks who entered

Ursula 2006

Perhaps among the Persians, Armenians, or Kalmucks, who flocked to the great market, he had agents, instructed to provoke a rising in the interior.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Kirghiz, with flat faces like the Kalmucks, dressed in coats of mail: some carried the lance, bows, and arrows of Asiatic manufacture; some the saber, a matchlock gun, and the

Michael Strogoff 2003

Selenga; the Kalmucks, a nomad people in the Government of Astrakhan, as also in Tomsk, in the country of the Don Cossacks, and partly in the Government of Stavropol.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The Kalmucks appeared first on the eastern confines of Russia in the year 1630.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The Kalmucks are obliged to serve with the Cossack troops, but their duties are mostly confined to looking after the cattle and horses which accompany the army.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

Here dwell the Kalmucks and Kirghizes, descendants of the Tartars whose yoke once pressed heavily upon Russia.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

Kalmucks, Tartars and such natives as could be found, and put them to work.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen