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Rh Nagan-hushun.—A Chinese vegetable garden or enclosure in Mongolia.

Naida.—A form of fire used by Siberian woodsmen.

Noyon.—A Prince or Khan. In polite address: "Chief," "Excellency."

Obo.—The sacred and propitiatory signs in all the dangerous places in Urianhai and Mongolia.

Olets.—Vid: Kalmuck.

Om.—The name of the first Goro (q.v.) and also of the mysterious, magic science of the Subterranean State. It means, also: "Hail!"

Orochons.—A Mongolian tribe, living near the shores of the Amur River in Siberia.

Oulatchen.—The guard for the post horses; official guide.

Ourton.—A post station, where the travelers change horses and oulatchens.

Pandita.—The high rank of Buddhist monks.

Panti.—Deer horns in the velvet, highly prized as a Tibetan and Chinese medicine.

Pogrom.—A wholesale slaughter of unarmed people; a massacre.

Paspa.—The founder of the Yellow Sect, predominating now in the Lamaite faith.

Sait.—A Mongolian governor.

Saiga.—A sand partridge.

Sayn.—"Good day!" "Good morning!" "Good evening!" All right; good.

Taiga.—A Siberian word for forest.

Taimen.—A species of big trout, reaching 120 pounds.

Ta Lama.—Literally: "the great priest," but it means now "a doctor of medicine."

Tashur.—A strong bamboo stick.

Turpan.—The red wild goose or Lama-goose.

Tzagan.—White.

Tzara.—A document, giving the right to receive horses and oulatchens at the post stations.

Tzirik.—Mongolian soldiers mobilized by levy.

Tzuren.—A doctor-poisoner.