| I. Across Tonking | [3] |
| II. Days in Yunnan-Fu | [24] |
| III. Across Yunnan | [41] |
| IV. The Chien-ch'ang | [71] |
| V. On the Mandarin Road | [101] |
| VI. Tachienlu | [123] |
| VII. The Lesser Trail | [139] |
| VIII. Across Chengtu Plain | [161] |
| IX. Omei Shan, the Sacred | [180] |
| X. Down the Yangtse | [202] |
| XI. From the Great River to the Great Wall | [221] |
| XII. The Mongolian Grassland | [236] |
| XIII. Across the Desert of Gobi | [256] |
| XIV. Urga, the Sacred City | [276] |
| XV. North to the Siberian Railway | [289] |
| XVI. A Few First Impressions of China | [308] |
| Index | [323] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Little "Fu t'ou" (Caravan Headman) (p. [6]) | [Frontispiece] |
| Map of Chinese Empire | [3] |
| A Yunnan Valley | [6] |
| Outside the Walls of Yunnan-Fu | [6] |
| My Sedan Chair and Bearers | [32] |
| A Memorial Arch near Yunnan-Fu | [32] |
| Map of West China | [42] |
| On a Yunnan Road: My Caravan—The Military Escort | [44] |
| Wu-Ting-Chou: Temple Gateway—Temple Corner | [60] |
| Lolo Girls | [80] |
| "Tame, Wild" Lolos | [80] |
| A Memorial Arch. Szechuan | [92] |
| Fortified Village in the Chien-ch'ang Valley | [92] |
| "Mercury," my Fleet Coolie | [106] |
| Carrier Coolies | [106] |
| A Group of Szechuan Farmhouses | [114] |
| A View of Tachienlu | [124] |
| Tibetans | [124] |
| Lama and Dog at Tachienlu | [134] |
| The Gate of Tibet | [134] |
| A Wayside Rest-House | [146] |
| A Fortified Post | [146] |
| A Roadside Tea-House | [152] |
| Tea Coolie crossing a Suspension Bridge | [152] |
| A Farmhouse in Chengtu Plain | [162] |
| Memorial Arch to a "Virtuous Widow," Chengtu Plain | [168] |
| The "Rejection of the Body" (Cliff a mile high), Mount Omei, West Szechuan | [196] |
| In the Yangtse Gorges | [218] |
| Tartar Wall, Peking | [230] |
| Caravan outside the Tartar Wall | [230] |
| A Poor Mongol Family and Yurt | [248] |
| Jack and his Lama Friend | [258] |
| My Caravan across Mongolia | [258] |
| Horsemen of the Desert, North Mongolia | [268] |
| A Lama bound for Urga | [278] |
| A Mongol Belle, Urga | [278] |
| My Mongol Hostess | [284] |
| The Mongol House where I stayed in Urga | [284] |
| Lama and his "Wife" | [298] |
My thanks are due to Robert J. Davidson, Esq., of Chengtu, Szechuan, for kind permission to use the photograph of the Yangtse Gorges. Also to Messrs. Underwood & Underwood, of New York, for the photographs of the Tartar Wall, Peking. With these exceptions the illustrations are from photographs made by myself on the journey. I should like to express here my appreciation of the care and skill shown by the staff of the Kodak Agency, Regent Street, West, in handling films often used under very unfavourable conditions.
E. K.