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A VISIT TO THE SELENGÍNSK LAMASERY
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been set at an angle that would have surprised a naturalist; but in view of the fact that the native artist probably never had seen an elephant, the resemblance of the copy to the
SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT AND SHRINE OF THE BURKHÁNS.
original was fairly close. The white elephant is harnessed, as shown in the above illustration, to a large four-wheel wagon, on which stands a beautiful and delicately carved shrine, made in imitation of a two-story temple. On the occasion of the great annual festival of the lamaists
