SVEN HEDIN

DR. SVEN HEDIN IN TIBETAN DRESS.

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
1914
First Edition 1912
Reprinted 1914

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

This translation of Dr. Sven Hedin's Från Pol till Pol has, with the
author's permission, been abridged and edited for the use of
English-speaking young people.

CONTENTS

PART I
I. Across Europe—PAGE
Berlin to Constantinople[8]
Constantinople[13]
The Church of the Divine Wisdom[15]
The Bazaars of Stambul[20]
II. Constantinople to Teheran(1905)—
The Black Sea[26]
Trebizond to Teheran[29]
III. Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia(1885-6)—
St. Petersburg to Baku[34]
Across Persia[37]
Arabia[40]
Baghdad to Teheran[42]
IV. The Persian Desert(1906)—
Across the Kevir[46]
The Oasis of Tebbes[51]
V. On the Kirghiz Steppe(1893-5)—
Into Asia from Orenburg[55]
Samarcand and Bukhara[59]
The Pamir[62]
"The Father of Ice-Mountains[66]
A Kirghiz Gymkhana[69]
VI. From Persia to India (1906)—
Tebbes to Seistan[72]
A Baluchi Raid[75]
Scorpions[80]
The Indus[82]
Kashmir and Ladak[87]
VII. Eastern Turkestan (1895)—
The Takla-makan Desert[89]
Across a Sea of Sand[90]
The End of the Caravan[93]
Water at Last[97]
VIII. The Desert Waterway (1899)—
Down the Yarkand River[102]
The Tarim[105]
The Wandering Lake[107]
Wild Camels[109]
IX. In the Forbidden Land (1901-2, 1906-8)—
The Plateau of Tibet[111]
Attempt to reach Lhasa[115]
The Tashi Lama[124]
Wild Asses and Yaks[126]
X. India—
From Tibet to Simla[130]
Delhi and Agra[131]
Benares and Brahminism[134]
The Light of Asia[137]
Bombay[141]
The Useful Plants of India[142]
Wild Elephants[145]
The Cobra[148]
XI. From India to China (1908)—
The Indian Ocean[152]
The Sunda Islands[153]
Penang and Singapore[156]
Up the China Sea[157]
XII. China—
To Shanghai[161]
""The Middle Kingdom"[164]
The Blue River[169]
In Northern China[172]
Mongolia[176]
Marco Polo[179]
XIII. Japan (1908)—
Nagasaki and Kobe[185]
Fujiyama and Tokio[190]
Nikko, Nara, and Kioto[193]
XIV. Back to Europe—
Korea[197]
Manchuria[199]
The Trans-Siberian Railway[202]
The Volga and Moscow[207]
St. Petersburg and Home[210]
PART II
I. Stockholm to Egypt—
To London and Paris[215]
Napoleon's Tomb[218]
Paris to Rome[222]
The Eternal City[225]
Pompeii[229]
II. Africa—
General Gordon[236]
The Conquest of the Sudan[247]
Ostriches[250]
Baboons[252]
The Hippopotamus[253]
Man-eating Lions[256]
David Livingstone[261]
How Stanley found Livingstone[275]
The Death of Livingstone[282]
Stanley's Great Journey[287]
Timbuktu and the Sahara[297]
III. North America—
The Discovery of the New World[306]
New York[317]
Chicago and the Great Lakes[326]
Through the Great West[333]
IV. South America—
The Inca Empire[341]
The Amazons River[351]
V. In the South Seas—
Albatrosses and Whales[358]
Robinson Crusoe's Island[362]
Across the Pacific Ocean[365]
Across Australia[372]
VI. The North Polar Regions—
Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage[377]
The Voyage of the "Vega"[386]
Nansen[392]
VII. The South Polar Regions[404]