| Thunder |
| Gazelles and Wild Asses |
| Arrival at the Plateau Kaftankir |
| Ancient Bed of Oxus |
| Friendly Encampment |
| Approach of Horsemen |
| Gazavat |
| Entry into Khiva |
| Malicious Charge by Afghan |
| Interview with Khan |
| Author required to give Specimen of Turkish Penmanship |
| Robes of Honour estimated by Human Heads |
| Horrible Execution of Prisoners |
| Peculiar Execution of Women |
| Kungrat |
| Author's last Benediction of the Khan. |
CHAPTER IX.--Page [144]
FROM KHIVA TO BOKHARA.
| Departure from Khiva for Bokhara |
| Ferry across the Oxus |
| Great Heat |
| Shurakhan |
| Market |
| Singular Dialogue with Kirghis Woman on Nomadic Life |
| Tünüklü |
| Alaman of the Tekke |
| Karavan alarmed returns to Tünüklü |
| Forced to throw itself into the Desert, 'Destroyer of Life' |
| Thirst |
| Death of Camels |
| Death of a Hadji |
| Stormy Wind |
| Precarious State of Author |
| Hospitable Reception amongst Persian Slaves |
| First Impression of Bokhara the Noble. |
CHAPTER X.--Page [167]
| Bokhara |
| Reception at the Tekkie, the Chief Nest of Islamism |
| Rahmet Bi |
| Bazaars |
| Baha-ed-din, Great Saint of Turkestan |
| Spies set upon Author |
| Fate of recent Travellers in Bokhara |
| Book Bazaar |
| The Worm (Rishte) |
| Water Supply |
| Late and present Emirs |
| Harem, Government, Family of Reigning Emir |
| Slave Depot and Trade |
| Departure from Bokhara, and Visit to the Tomb of Baha-ed-din. |
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CHAPTER XI.--Page [197]
| Bokhara to Samarcand |
| Little Desert of Chöl Melik |
| Animation of Road owing to War |
| First View of Samarcand |
| Haszreti Shah Zinde |
| Mosque of Timour |
| Citadel (Ark) |
| Reception Hall of Timour |
| Köktash or Timour's Throne |
| Singular Footstool |
| Timour's Sepulchre and that of his Preceptor |
| Author visits the actual Tomb of Timour in the Souterrain |
| Folio Koran ascribed to Osman, Mohammed's Secretary |
| Colleges |
| Ancient Observatory |
| Greek Armenian Library not, as pretended, carried off by Timour |
| Architecture of Public Buildings not Chinese but Persian |
| Modern Samarcand |
| Its Population |
| Dehbid |
| Author decides to return |
| Arrival of Emir |
| Author's Interview with him |
| Parting from the Hadjis, and Departure from Samarcand. |