Image: Unknown Mongolia - a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria (1914) (14592471478)

Description: Identifier: unknownmongoliar01carr (find matches) Title: Unknown Mongolia : a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Carruthers, Douglas, 1881- Miller, J. H. (Jack Humphrey) Subjects: Hunting Hunting Publisher: London : Hutchinson Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: intercourse ofmen. They wander about with their flocks and theirwives, who are taught to fight like men. And so theycame with the swiftness of lightning to the confines ofChristendom, ravaging and slaughtering, striking everyone with terror and incomparable horror. This was the reputation the Mongols enjoyed whentheir name first reached Europe, and created the terrorwhich foreran their advance. The very name of theTartars made men shudder. They were put down as a scourge from God ; old writers refer to them as a visitation from God, demons who had been sent tochastise mankind. Europe did not look on the Mongolsas human enemies or as a common foe, but as somethingsupernatural. Men then believed the Mongols hadheads like dogs and fed on human flesh ! Such wildterror spread through Europe in advance of the Tartarsand the threatening danger was taken so seriously, thatthe Danish fishermen dared not put to sea for fear of theMongols ! It was the same in the Farthest East as in the Farthest Text Appearing After Image: MONGOLIA, PAST AND PRESENT 301 West—on the shores of the Pacific as on the North Sea.A Chinese historian of the period exclaims with disgust,that since the commencement of the world no nationhas ever been as powerful as the Mongols are atpresent. They annihilate empires as one tears upgrass. Why does Heaven permit it ? Another writerdescribes the result of Mongol supremacy in significantterms when he remarks that In Asia and easternEurope scarcely a dog might bark without Mongol leave. So overwhelming was the Mongol flood which, sweep-ing across Asia, arrived at the gates of Eastern Europe,that the rulers of Europe began at last to consult eachother, as to what they should do. Combined actionmust be resorted to, to stay such a human flood, nosingle kingdom could resist by itself alone. Nothing soclearly shows the fear which the Mongol hordes inspiredin the hearts of the greatest European kingdoms, as theappeal made by the Emperor Frederik II., the HolyRoman Emperor, to Christendom, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Unknown Mongolia - a record of travel and exploration in north-west Mongolia and Dzungaria (1914) (14592471478)
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