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Plate IV. Exhibits a common Kalmuk, with a rifle-gun over his fhoul-der, and a horfe-whip in his hand; and likewife a KalmukPrieft, or Gellong; as defcribed p. 117.—In the back-ground are reprefented tents, or temporary felt-huts, inha-bited by that nation.

Plate V. A Kalmuk houfewife and girl, in their national drefs,N alluded to in the page laft mentioned.

Plate VI. A rural encampment, or what is by the natives called, Aul,^ of the Kundure Tartars, who lead a wandering life on thebanks of the Akhtouba: where the huts are alternatelyconftrufted in the Tartar and Kalmuk manner ; the formerof which are placed entire on two wheeled chariots, andthe latter may be disjoined or taken to pieces. At the fametime, there is a reprefentation of the covered chariotsexclufively devoted to females; and, in the back-ground, of the fepulchral monuments erefted by theNagays.—The other objects delineated in the plate areevident on infpe&ion: See farther the account given,pp. 172 and following.

Plate VII. Reprefents a woman and a girl of the Kundure Tartars,(pp. 174 and 175,) in their national coflume.

Plate VIII. An outline of the idolatrous fhrine, or floating Pagoda,v before which the Indians refident at Aftrakhan daily per-form their evening prayers: the names of the idols arefpecified in the account give pp. 254, 257, and followingof the text.

Plate IX. Exhibits a view of the congregation of thofe Indians en-gaged in folemn prayer: an explanation of this fubject islikewife given in the pages laft mentioned.

Plate X.