“N’allez pas là! C’est la morale de ce livre!”

Let the reader benefit by our experience.

H. de W.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Gravesend to Pekin[1]
CHAPTER II.
Pekin[60]
CHAPTER III.
Pekin to Kalgan[115]
CHAPTER IV.
Kalgan, or Chang-Chia-Kow[147]
CHAPTER V.
The Desert of Gobi[187]
CHAPTER VI.
Ourga to Kiakhta[268]
CHAPTER VII.
Kiakhta to Irkoutsk[322]
CHAPTER VIII.
Irkoutsk[385]
CHAPTER IX.
Irkoutsk (continued)[422]
CHAPTER X.
Irkoutsk to Tomsk[471]
CHAPTER XI.
Tomsk[573]
CHAPTER XII.
Perm to Calais[626]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

A CaravanFrontispiece
A Street in Tartar City——Pekin[110]
A Mule Litter[140]
Da-Hun-Go[184]
Ourouni[214]
My Camel Cart[222]
An awkward Moment[252]
A Street Prayer-wheel at Ourga[288]
Our Tarantass with “Troika”[352]
A Village Ostrog——Convicts on the March[409]
A Siberian Criminal Convict[448]
A Night in a Post-house[478]
The Post-house at Rasgonnaia[493]
A Siberian Village Street[496]
A Prison Barge on the Obi River[614]
[Map.]