Crossword-Solution: KALMUK 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The Kalmuk tale of How the Schimm-Khan was Slain contains striking analogies to this of the Three Strong Men.

First of all, the master of the house, a sort of giant--sunburned, swarthy, with his head between his shoulders--to whom his short nose, lost in the puffiness of the face, his woolly hair massed like an Astrakhan cap over a low, headstrong forehead, his bristling eyebrows with eyes like a wild cat's in ambush, gave the ferocious aspect of a Kalmuk, of a savage on the frontiers of civilization, who lived by war and marauding.

Cosquin, ii., 209-14, gives a number of Oriental stories, Annamite, Kalmuk, Kaffir, which contain the incident of the girl in the bag, and Indian and Kabyle stories, which go through the same exchanges as our story.

The whole was enlivened by the figures of Kalmuk horsemen galloping to and fro, of camels wandering here and there through the rich pastures, and officers conveying the orders of their chief from tent to tent.

The lips, beautifully arched and closing over pearly teeth; the countenance, expressive of great sweetness; the skin, of a brownish tint, but exquisitely delicate, would entitle her to be considered a very handsome woman, even in France, if the outline of her face and the arrangement of her features--the oblique eyes, the prominent cheek-bones--had been less pronouncedly Kalmuk.