LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR | [Frontispiece] |
| PRESSBURG | [3] |
| PESTH—THE STARTING PLACE | [11] |
| GALACZ | [17] |
| THE BOSPHORUS | [23] |
| MOUNT ARARAT | [57] |
| CITY OF TEBRIZ | [65] |
| TRAVELLING IN PERSIA | [97] |
| TAKH-TA-RA-WAN | [127] |
| MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE TARTARS | [151] |
| A DERVISH FEAST | [163] |
| A LIGHT FOR THE COMPASS | [197] |
| THE KARENDAG HILLS | [201] |
| A WELL IN THE DESERT | [209] |
| AN ASININE ARMY | [215] |
| AUDIENCE WITH THE KHAN OF KHIVA | [223] |
| ROAD IN CENTRAL ASIA | [229] |
| SAMARKAND | [255] |
PREFATORY NOTE
TO
FIRST EDITION.
The following pages contain a strictly personal narrative of my Travels and Adventures in Asia and in Europe. They make no pretence whatever to be a geographical and ethnological description of the actual Central Asia. Upon these points recent works have greatly added to the knowledge we possessed twenty years ago, when I performed my dangerous pilgrimage from Budapest to Samarkand. A résumé of the various publications of Russian, English, French and German travellers in this region would have formed a separate book, but these have nothing to do with the variegated adventures of my own career, of which I here propose to give the first complete picture to the English reader.
ARMINIUS VAMBÉRY.
Budapest.