Kalmuck

Encumbered as he was with his women, children, and entire movable possessions, obliged to forage and hunt on the way, and avoiding pursuers in rear as well as forces coming to meet him in front, fighting frequent and some of the time successful battles,—the Nez Percé chieftain exhibited qualities of leadership and resources of mind and body which offer materials for a historical romance equal to De Quincey’s Flight of the Kalmuck Tartars.

Such might have been, in days long past, the migrations of the Huns or of the Kalmuck Tartars.

Forty years before the date of my story, M. Zubin had bought two Kalmuck boys.

This man was a Kalmuck, and I must tell something of his history.

Koumiss, kōō′mis, n. a Kalmuck intoxicating beverage made from the soured and fermented milk of mares—supposed to be good for pulmonary phthisis.