Princes or nobles assemble on. the fourth day for the archery contest the matches being shot off in pair AL the far end of the field a row of small leather rings, built so. 9s to! form a small wall, Is set up, and this forms the target. By the rules of the competition, the archers shoot high the air over a wooden structure and finally knock over the ings in the leather "wall!" Then men. in charge of the targets, whose duty it Is to set up all those which are Knocked down, have a special song] which they keep up the whole time and which tells the archers of the proximity or otherwise of their aim:
the archer misses the target, the song dies down it he his it there is a sudden and rapid crescendo, 'The song is thought ta have been handed down since the time of Ghengis Khan, 'This concludes the festivities for the year, and shortly afterwards the ents are folded up' and the people: return fo their districts, About this lime of the year a rather cure present is made to the monasteries, consisting of ornaments made of but ter in various flowery designs, and which are painted blue, yellow, green, red, and s0 on, and are placed on the' altars. Presumably Me priests eat them in the autumn, despite the fact that by then they mast be rather Photographs iMustrating this urtiete appear on Page 8: 1
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