Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — A Tartar Tent. [ARTICLE]

A Tartar Tent.

A writer on the Tartars says: Their tents are made of felt, stretched on a frame work of thin curved stripe of wood six feet long, which folds up for the camels to carry, and when opened out take the form of a segment of a circle. Four of the frames form the circular side of the tent; and oh the top are placed curved rafters which concentrate in a hoop three or four feet in diameter, which is the roof-tree and chimney. As soon as it is all bound together with camel’s hair ropes, nothing short of a tornado will make it budge. When the bright firs of the saxaul (a shrub which serves as fuel here,) throws its ruddy light over the bright oolored carpets, rugs, and cushions which are so spread within, and lights np the arms and cooking utensils the saddles and bridles, Tartar guitars, and various household articles which are hang upon a light trellis of wood covered with thick white felt, there are lees pleasing interiors to be seen not far from London or New Yerk Mum (foe UtMca eflfoe Tartar.