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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 sh.o.r.es 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 ma.s.sacre.
Paspa.--The founder of the Yellow Sect, predominating now in the Lamaite faith.
Sait.--A Mongolian governor.
Salga.--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 doc.u.ment, giving the right to receive horses and oulatchens at the post stations.
Tsirik.--Mongolian soldiers mobilized by levy.
Tzuren.--A doctor-poisoner.
Ulan.--Red.
Urga.--The name of the capital of Mongolia; (2) a kind of Mongolian la.s.so.
Vatannen.--The language of the Subterranean State of the King of the World.
Wapiti.--The American elk.
Yurta.--The common Mongolian tent or house, made of felt.
Zahachine.--A West Mongolian wandering tribe.
Zaberega.--The ice-mountains formed along the sh.o.r.es of a river in spring.
Zikkurat.--A high tower of Babylonish style.
