Occasionally there were badly-painted pictures, purchased from the Chinese at enormous prices.

Sometimes poles shaped like small idols are fixed before the houses.
A Goldee house is warmed by means of wooden pipes under the divan and passing out under ground to a chimney ten or fifteen feet from the building.

Great economy is shown in using fuel and great care against conflagrations.

I was not able to stand erect in any Goldee houses I entered.
Like all people of the Mongolian race, the natives pretended to have little curiosity.

When we landed at their villages many continued their occupations and paid no attention to strangers.