- A
- Aalesund, 6
- Accident on Great Post Road, 176
- Angara river, 178, 224
- navigation of, 227
- Siberiakoff’s scheme for its navigation, 226
- “Angliski Boxe,” 268
- April 8, 1891, 264
- “At homes” at Lady Walsham’s, 358
- B
- Bear-hunting, 95
- Biscaya, the steamship, 2
- good-bye to the, 59
- in the ice, 16
- our party on board, 3
- and Thule, departure of, 60
- Botoiskaya, 158
- Bradiagga, 170
- “Brick” tea, 290
- C
- Camel-cart, 303
- Camels, 304
- Cape Flyaway, 11
- Capital punishment, 144
- “Chaman” stone, the, 228
- China, over-population, 325
- Chinese cities, 340
- cooking, 343
- house-boat, 374
- inns, 340
- inn, room in, 342
- vodka, 343
- women, small feet of, 325
- Cold, 161
- Cold, first touch of, 96
- “Convict’s word,” 199
- Crowther, our ice-master, 12
- Czar’s birthday, celebration of, in Irkutsk, 219
- D
- Dogger Bank, 4
- Dogs, native, 79
- Dudinskoi, 64
- E
- Eclipse of the moon, 327
- Englishman in North China, 345
- Exciting incident, 261
- F
- Flies, 349
- Forest track, 167
- Forests of Northern Siberia, 69
- Foxes, white, 64
- G
- Gobi Desert, early morning in, 308
- first glimpse of, 313
- Holfer-Sum, 324
- meets homeward-bound mail in, 314
- Lama settlement of Tcho-Iyr, 315
- Mongol food, 311
- my American cooking-stove, 303
- post station in mid-desert, 321
- preparations for, 302
- prevalent wind in, 318
- sport in, 319
- the noonday halt, 309
- Tola river, 312
- water in, 310
- Golchika, 32
- to Karaoul, 34
- Great Wall of China, 347
- the “First Parallel,” 333
- H
- Hart, Sir Robert, interview with, 359
- Highway robbery, 160
- Holidays in Siberia, 217
- I
- Inquest, 84
- Irkutsk, arrival at, 179
- a ball at M. de Sievers, 187
- amusements, 217
- cost of living in, 219
- fire brigade, 215
- foundling hospital, 212
- garrison of, 190
- Moskovskaia Podvorié, 180
- museum, 216
- police, 190
- prison, 192
- artists, 196
- criminal madhouse, 203
- incongruities of, 194
- internal arrangements of, 193
- I paint a picture in, 206
- political prisoners, 205
- solitary cells, 204
- the baroness, 200
- last interview with, 207
- workshops, 194
- prisoners, outdoor employment of, 198
- public institutions, 188
- society, 184
- telephones and telegraphs, 216
- the Bolshoi Oulitza, 183
- the gold industry, 209
- to Kiakhta, my preparation for journey, 223
- unpleasant experiences, 181
- K
- Kalgan, 331
- American missionaries, 335
- impressions of, 334
- Kamin pass, 88
- Kansk, 165
- Karaoul, 35
- the chief inhabitant of, 37
- Kara Sea, curio-hunting, 21
- entrance to, 15
- ice-bound in the, 24
- icefields in, 17
- its deadly silence, 27
- seal-shooting, 25
- the captain’s polar bear in the, 29
- the walrus-hunters, 20
- thickness of the ice, 28
- twilight in, 20
- Kasanskoi, my first visit to, 49
- trader’s house at, 50
- departure from, 61
- Khabarova, the hamlet of, 14
- Kiakhta, arrival at, 244
- departure for, 223
- departure from, 250
- to Ourga, my preparations for journey, 249
- Kolguier Island, 11
- Koutoulik, 165
- waiting-room in post-house, 175
- Krasnoiarsk, departure for, 124
- a convoy of prisoners on the road to, 138
- a Priviligiert prisoner, 118
- arrival at, 130
- cigarette-making in, prison, 149
- courtyard of perasilny, 146
- criminal exiles, 134
- fire-towers, 155
- hotel at, 130
- incident at fancy dress ball, 152
- interior of perasilny, 147
- Jewish and Mohammedan prisoners, 140
- local malefactors, 153
- married prisoners’ quarters in perasilny, 147
- political exiles, 151
- Priviligierts criminals, 136
- scene outside prison, 149
- society, 132
- the market place, 131
- the night refuge, 153
- the perasilny of, 141
- the theatre, 155
- verification of prisoners, 145
- departure from, 157
- “Kupetski track,” 236
- incidents on, 237
- L
- Lake Baikal, 230
- first view of, 229
- the road across, on the ice, 232
- transparency of ice, 233
- Landor, Mr. Savage, 373
- Lee, Mr. Charles, 182, 227
- Mr. George, death of, 71
- Lhassa, 277
- Liestvinitz, 230
- Lofoden Islands, 7
- M
- Mail courier, 173
- Manhati Pass, 266
- Matwieff, my servant, 157
- Maimachin, 250
- Midnight sun, 8
- Mirage on the Yenisei river, 46
- Mongol farmyard, 258
- hair-dressing, 255
- Mongolia, currency of, 289
- Russian influence in, 296
- Mongolian camels, 305
- Mongols, 255
- Moufshkaya, 234
- Mountains of North China, 328
- Mule-litter, 337
- Mules, 337
- N
- Nankaou Pass, 347
- Nasymovo, 95
- Nijni Udinsk, 165
- North Cape, 8
- O
- Official Russia, first visit from, 83
- Oka river, 175
- Ostiaks, 77
- Ourga, my arrival at, 271
- absence of beggars, 286
- a mad dog, 288
- an impromptu “interview,” 279
- disposal of the dead, 289
- dogs, 286
- festival of the Maidha, 297
- first impressions of, 273
- Lamas, 281
- Mr. Feodroff, 274
- prayer-boards, 284
- prayer-flags, 285
- prayer-wheels, 282
- religious fervour of the Mongols, 282
- the bazaar, 292
- the “Bogdor,” 275
- the figure of the Maidha, 276
- the “old, old story,” 299
- the pony and camel market, 293
- the Russian Consulate, 273
- watchmen, 295
- departure from, 308
- P
- Peiho river, 374
- Peking, departure from, 374
- entrance to, 351
- exciting times, 354
- sketching in, 371
- street scenes, 357
- the British Legation, 354
- the hotel, 353
- Phœnix, arrival of, 42
- cabin of, 45
- her crew, 43
- springs a leak, 67
- Political exiles at Kiakhta, 247
- R
- Russian cooking, our first taste of, 44
- custom-house officer, 48
- heavy mail, caravan of, 305
- the two Cossacks with, 306
- hospitality, my first experience of, 54
- Imperial Mail, 173
- light mail in the Gobi, 305
- Russian police officer, 84
- Russo-Chinese frontier, 250
- S
- Saham Balhousar, 324
- departure from, 326
- Samovars, 168
- Samoyede grave, 38
- hut, 40
- Samoyedes at Golchika, 33
- Seagulls, 77
- Selenga river, 242
- exciting incident on, 243
- Selivanaka, 77
- Shanghai, arrival at, 379
- Tientsin to, 379
- Siberia, first glimpse of, 12
- Sin Fou Fou, 339
- Sketching at Kasanskoi, 52
- Skopti, 77
- Snow ridges, 159
- Sotnikoff, Mr., a visit to, 75
- Sledge-travelling, novelty of, 162
- Sledging, 124
- first experiences of, 129
- on Great Post Road, 156
- the cold, 129
- the padarojna, 127
- the post houses, 128
- the widow, 125
- Staroster of prisoners, 142
- Steam-launch, expedition of our, 41
- T
- Tarantass, 239
- Tchai Dar, 347
- Tchien-Men gate, Peking, 351
- Tea caravans, 160
- with a Lama, 291
- Thule, arrival of the, 56
- Tientsin, arrival at, 378
- Tiretskaya, 175
- Touloung, 165, 174
- Travellers, scarcity of, in Siberia, 173
- Trees, northern limit of, 64
- Troitzkosavsk, 245
- Tundras, 38
- of Northern Siberia, 47
- Tungchow, 374
- Turuchansk, 80
- visit to the monastery, 81
- V
- Ventilation, 165
- Village communes, 164
- priest, 85
- W
- Walsham, Sir John, interview with, 355
- Waygatch, the Straits of, 14
- Werchneimbackskoi, 83
- Wiggins’s expedition, 63
- Wood, fuel on the Yenisei, 66
- Worogoro, 90
- the Tartar at, 91
- Y
- Yenisei river, proportions of, 62
- Yeniseisk, arrival at, 96
- amusements, 104
- a visit to the men’s prison, 107
- a visit to the women’s prison, 112
- chat with political exile, 115
- custom-house officials, 101
- departure of criminals, 113
- fire brigade, 118
- first impressions of, 98
- gold fields, 103
- High Street, 120
- houses, 119
- my lodgings, 102
- political exiles at, 114
- shops, 101
- society, 105
- the hospital, 117
- the market, 101
- Yambooshan, arrival at, 330
- Yourts, 252
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