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Costume of the Russian empire : illustrated by upwards of seventy richly coloured engravings .. (1811)

Harding, Edward · London : Printed by T. Bensley for J. Stockdale · leaf 215

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e, je ne sois heureux à la chasse ni à la pêche: puissai je être privé de mes enfans; puissai-je mourir moi-même! Mais il est un troisième serment plus terribleencore que les deux autres. On tue un chien, on le brûle, et avant quilsoit consumé, on le jette dans la campagne; laccusé est obligé de… … , - . y~àjXiiW&fy&P PLATE XLVIII. BACK FIGURE OF A TONGUSIAN PRIEST, IN THE VICINITY OF THE ARGOUN. Polygamy is permitted among the Tongusians. Some of them have fivewives, but the greater number have only one. These wives are purchasedwith animals and furs. The bride presents her husband…

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