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.
