 | Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry - 1838 - 248 pagina’s
...being upon the spot, soon caused the temporary habitations, such as tents and huts, to be VOL. n. p converted into regular dwellings, and two towns quickly...circulating medium, the value of goods being generally expressed in numbers of tonnes, or tens of tonnes. Within these few years, however, great changes have... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagina’s
...quantities of it, to be again sold at the fair of Nijny-Novgorod, to the wandering Tartars or Mongols subject to Russia. "Next to tea, Chinese cottons were...ten pieces each ; these packets, which were called taunts, might be said to represent the numerary notation, or rather the circulating medium, the value... | |
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The manner of its use is equally singular : these cakes are dissolved in boiling water mixed with meal, fat, and salt. This tea is in great request throughout all the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, and the Russian merchants buy at Kiakhta considerable... 