| The Tomb of Timour | [ Photogravure Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE |
| The Central Asian Railway: Nearing the Oxus | [ 18] |
| The Central Asian Desert | [ 20] |
| Bokhara: The Escort of a Magistrate | [ 28] |
| Outside One of the Most Famous of the Mosques | [ 32] |
| A Holiday at Samarkand: Boys of the Military SchoolPlaying among the Ruins of the Tomb of Tamerlane | [ 36] |
| Mohammedan Tombs and Ruins in the Youngest of theRussian Colonies | [ 40] |
| A Mohammedan Festival at Samarkand—The Hour ofPrayer | [ 48] |
| Central Asian Jewesses | [ 50] |
| Fine-looking Sarts in Old Tashkent | [ 56] |
| Outside a German Shop in Old Tashkent | [ 58] |
| Tashkent: A Football Match at the College | [ 60] |
| Pleasant Country Outside Tashkent | [ 64] |
| Hearty Shepherds: All Kirghiz | [ 66] |
| The Russian Teacher: A Native School in Tashkent | [ 68] |
| A Kirghiz Grandmother: Vendor of Koumis | [ 74] |
| Russians and Kirghiz Living Side by Side at the Footof the Mountains | [ 76] |
| A Tent of Lonely Nomads on a Summer Pasture inCentral Asia | [ 80] |
| Sarts Selling Bread: The Lepeshka Stall | [ 84] |
| The Native Orchestra: See the Men with the Ten-footHorns, “Trumpets of Jericho,” as the Russians CallThem | [ 104] |
| “Past the Ruins of Ancient Towers” | [ 120] |
| A Settled Kirghiz: One of the Characters of Pishpek | [ 130] |
| The Irrigated Desert—an Emblem of Russian Colonisationin Central Asia | [ 136] |
| The Shady Village Street—One Long Line of Willowsand Poplars | [ 152] |
| The Cathedral of St. Sophia at Verney—After theEarthquake of 1887 | [ 158] |
| Visitors at a Kirghiz Wedding | [ 168] |
| Chinese Praying-House at Djarkent | [ 178] |
| Lepers in a Frontier Town | [ 180] |
| A Patriarchal Kirghiz Family | [ 186] |
| Sheep-Shearing Outside the Tent Home | [ 194] |
| In Summer Pasture: Evening Outside the Kirghiz Tent | [ 198] |
| Four Wives of a Rich Kirghiz | [ 205] |
| At a Kirghiz Funeral | [ 207] |
| Kirghiz Praying | [ 215] |
| In the Altai: Kirghiz Tombs near Medvedka | [ 222] |
| Altaiska Stanitsa: View of Mount Bielukha | [ 230] |
| Mobilisation Day on the Altai: The Village Emptiedof its Folk | [ 232] |
| Map of Route taken by Author | [ 270] |