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Mongolia, the Tangut country, and the solitudes of northern Tibet/Volume 1/Dumb Bargaining

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DUMB BARGAINING.

P. 145.

This kind of dumb higgling by finger pressure inside a sleeve or under a shawl, is found over all the longitude of Asia, from Peking certainly to Bombay, and possibly to Constantinople. I have suggested elsewhere[1] that a rumour of the use of such a system among the Chinese ​might have been confounded by Pliny with another system of dumb bargaining, related of many uncivilised nations, and have given rise to that strange statement of his about the Seres.—[Y.]

  1. ↑ Marco Polo, 2nd ed., ii. 486.
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