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sacrificial gifts to the Buriatic divinities in the shape of goat-skins
with head and horns attached, rags, and different kinds of
clothing.
Besides the villages, in which they spend the winter, the
Buriats have their summer stations, between which they
move with their herds of cattle. Up to the beginning of
this century they lived only in yurtas or earth-cabins; but
now well-to-do Buriats have comfortable houses, and only
a few families live in yurtas.
The so-called Barga-Buriats live in the government of
Irkutsk, and the Mongolian-Buriats in Transbaikalia. They
have all come from Mongolia, whence they probably were
driven by some nomadic people (neutcha). The history of
the Buriats before they were conquered by the Russians is,
however, only legendary; and very little has been done to
investigate their past. With certainty it is known only
that they have never played any prominent part in the
history of eastern Asia, and that at the time of Jenghis
Khan they lived in the regions surrounding Lake Baikal,
where they live to-day. According to Buriatic legends a
“Batyr”, Bachak-Irban, served at the court of Sian
Khan, who from jealousy resolved to punish him in a most
cruel manner. But Bachak-Irban gathered together the
Buriats and led them northwards to the land of Agan
Tsagan Khan. Here they encountered the Yakuts, whom
they drove northwards. At the invasion of the Russians
about 1740 the Buriats were the only occupants of the
country. The horrible cruelties of the Russian voyevodes
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