argols

The argols were too wet to burn, but we made a little blaze with the wood of my soda-water box.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

There was one novelty, a stove-pipe connected with a sort of cement stove, but perhaps this was merely for ornament, as my dinner was cooked in a pot placed upon a tripod over a fire of wood and argols.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

In place of tartar, argols and oxalic acid are frequently used, while lactic acid or lignorosine might be employed.

The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech

While Ishinima was gathering argols (the Mongolian word for the dried excreta of animals which the nomads use for fuel, and which must be used in fact by all travelers, as these wild regions are bare of wood) our mules broke away from their tether and had soon scampered out of sight.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

As yet very few people were astir, here a lama carrying a water-bucket on his broad back, there an early traveler setting out for the Lusar market, or a farmer with a donkey-load of straw, or fen-kuai-tsi, argols pressed into brick form, to be sold to the lamas.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

While attending to their daily duties, whether drawing water, tending the flocks, gathering argols, churning butter, or whatever it may be, they never cease to mumble prayers.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

The brass pot in which the tea is to be made is thoroughly cleaned with some dried argols if nothing else is at hand, and, the correct amount of water having been poured in, is placed upon a good fire; the leaves are then in large quantities put into the water, and a little salt and sometimes soda, if they have it, is added, and the whole is thoroughly boiled.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

While the men go to the hills, always heavily armed, to guard the flocks and herds, the women remain at home making the butter and cheese, and collecting argols to be dried in the sun and used for fuel.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

Without the slightest scruple they would pass from the manipulation of the argols to the mixture of butter, the milking of the cows, or the making of tea, without washing their hands, but simply wiping them off on the grass!

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

The next difficulty we encountered was our inability to make a fire, having no fuel except the argols, and not being proficient in the use of the Tibetan bellows

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901