From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea

by Julius M. Price

• A
• Aalesund, [6]
• Accident on Great Post Road, [176]
• Angara river, [178], [224]
• navigation of, [227]
• Siberiakoff’s scheme for its navigation, [226]
• “Angliski Boxe,” [268]
• April 8, 1891, [264]
• “At homes” at Lady Walsham’s, [358]
• B
• Bear-hunting, [95]
• Biscaya, the steamship, [2]
• good-bye to the, [59]
• in the ice, [16]
• our party on board, [3]
• and Thule, departure of, [60]
• Botoiskaya, [158]
• Bradiagga, [170]
• “Brick” tea, [290]
• C
• Camel-cart, [303]
• Camels, [304]
• Cape Flyaway, [11]
• Capital punishment, [144]
• “Chaman” stone, the, [228]
• China, over-population, [325]
• Chinese cities, [340]
• cooking, [343]
• house-boat, [374]
• inns, [340]
• inn, room in, [342]
• vodka, [343]
• women, small feet of, [325]
• Cold, [161]
• Cold, first touch of, [96]
• “Convict’s word,” [199]
• Crowther, our ice-master, [12]
• Czar’s birthday, celebration of, in Irkutsk, [219]
• D
• Dogger Bank, [4]
• Dogs, native, [79]
• Dudinskoi, [64]
• E
• Eclipse of the moon, [327]
• Englishman in North China, [345]
• Exciting incident, [261]
• F
• Flies, [349]
• Forest track, [167]
• Forests of Northern Siberia, [69]
• Foxes, white, [64]
• G
• Gobi Desert, early morning in, [308]
• first glimpse of, [313]
• Holfer-Sum, [324]
• meets homeward-bound mail in, [314]
• Lama settlement of Tcho-Iyr, [315]
• Mongol food, [311]
• my American cooking-stove, [303]
• post station in mid-desert, [321]
• preparations for, [302]
• prevalent wind in, [318]
• sport in, [319]
• the noonday halt, [309]
• Tola river, [312]
• water in, [310]
• Golchika, [32]
• to Karaoul, [34]
• Great Wall of China, [347]
• the “First Parallel,” [333]
• H
• Hart, Sir Robert, interview with, [359]
• Highway robbery, [160]
• Holidays in Siberia, [217]
• I
• Inquest, [84]
• Irkutsk, arrival at, [179]
• a ball at M. de Sievers, [187]
• amusements, [217]
• cost of living in, [219]
• fire brigade, [215]
• foundling hospital, [212]
• garrison of, [190]
• Moskovskaia Podvorié, [180]
• museum, [216]
• police, [190]
• prison, [192]
• artists, [196]
• criminal madhouse, [203]
• incongruities of, [194]
• internal arrangements of, [193]
• I paint a picture in, [206]
• political prisoners, [205]
• solitary cells, [204]
• the baroness, [200]
• last interview with, [207]
• workshops, [194]
• prisoners, outdoor employment of, [198]
• public institutions, [188]
• society, [184]
• telephones and telegraphs, [216]
• the Bolshoi Oulitza, [183]
• the gold industry, [209]
• to Kiakhta, my preparation for journey, [223]
• unpleasant experiences, [181]
• K
• Kalgan, [331]
• American missionaries, [335]
• impressions of, [334]
• Kamin pass, [88]
• Kansk, [165]
• Karaoul, [35]
• the chief inhabitant of, [37]
• Kara Sea, curio-hunting, [21]
• entrance to, [15]
• ice-bound in the, [24]
• icefields in, [17]
• its deadly silence, [27]
• seal-shooting, [25]
• the captain’s polar bear in the, [29]
• the walrus-hunters, [20]
• thickness of the ice, [28]
• twilight in, [20]
• Kasanskoi, my first visit to, [49]
• trader’s house at, [50]
• departure from, [61]
• Khabarova, the hamlet of, [14]
• Kiakhta, arrival at, [244]
• departure for, [223]
• departure from, [250]
• to Ourga, my preparations for journey, [249]
• Kolguier Island, [11]
• Koutoulik, [165]
• waiting-room in post-house, [175]
• Krasnoiarsk, departure for, [124]
• a convoy of prisoners on the road to, [138]
• a Priviligiert prisoner, [118]
• arrival at, [130]
• cigarette-making in, prison, [149]
• courtyard of perasilny, [146]
• criminal exiles, [134]
• fire-towers, [155]
• hotel at, [130]
• incident at fancy dress ball, [152]
• interior of perasilny, [147]
• Jewish and Mohammedan prisoners, [140]
• local malefactors, [153]
• married prisoners’ quarters in perasilny, [147]
• political exiles, [151]
• Priviligierts criminals, [136]
• scene outside prison, [149]
• society, [132]
• the market place, [131]
• the night refuge, [153]
• the perasilny of, [141]
• the theatre, [155]
• verification of prisoners, [145]
• departure from, [157]
• “Kupetski track,” [236]
• incidents on, [237]
• L
• Lake Baikal, [230]
• first view of, [229]
• the road across, on the ice, [232]
• transparency of ice, [233]
• Landor, Mr. Savage, [373]
• Lee, Mr. Charles, [182], [227]
• Mr. George, death of, [71]
• Lhassa, [277]
• Liestvinitz, [230]
• Lofoden Islands, [7]
• M
• Mail courier, [173]
• Manhati Pass, [266]
• Matwieff, my servant, [157]
• Maimachin, [250]
• Midnight sun, [8]
• Mirage on the Yenisei river, [46]
• Mongol farmyard, [258]
• hair-dressing, [255]
• Mongolia, currency of, [289]
• Russian influence in, [296]
• Mongolian camels, [305]
• Mongols, [255]
• Moufshkaya, [234]
• Mountains of North China, [328]
• Mule-litter, [337]
• Mules, [337]
• N
• Nankaou Pass, [347]
• Nasymovo, [95]
• Nijni Udinsk, [165]
• North Cape, [8]
• O
• Official Russia, first visit from, [83]
• Oka river, [175]
• Ostiaks, [77]
• Ourga, my arrival at, [271]
• absence of beggars, [286]
• a mad dog, [288]
• an impromptu “interview,” [279]
• disposal of the dead, [289]
• dogs, [286]
• festival of the Maidha, [297]
• first impressions of, [273]
• Lamas, [281]
• Mr. Feodroff, [274]
• prayer-boards, [284]
• prayer-flags, [285]
• prayer-wheels, [282]
• religious fervour of the Mongols, [282]
• the bazaar, [292]
• the “Bogdor,” [275]
• the figure of the Maidha, [276]
• the “old, old story,” [299]
• the pony and camel market, [293]
• the Russian Consulate, [273]
• watchmen, [295]
• departure from, [308]
• P
• Peiho river, [374]
• Peking, departure from, [374]
• entrance to, [351]
• exciting times, [354]
• sketching in, [371]
• street scenes, [357]
• the British Legation, [354]
• the hotel, [353]
• Phœnix, arrival of, [42]
• cabin of, [45]
• her crew, [43]
• springs a leak, [67]
• Political exiles at Kiakhta, [247]
• R
• Russian cooking, our first taste of, [44]
• custom-house officer, [48]
• heavy mail, caravan of, [305]
• the two Cossacks with, [306]
• hospitality, my first experience of, [54]
• Imperial Mail, [173]
• light mail in the Gobi, [305]
• Russian police officer, [84]
• Russo-Chinese frontier, [250]
• S
• Saham Balhousar, [324]
• departure from, [326]
• Samovars, [168]
• Samoyede grave, [38]
• hut, [40]
• Samoyedes at Golchika, [33]
• Seagulls, [77]
• Selenga river, [242]
• exciting incident on, [243]
• Selivanaka, [77]
• Shanghai, arrival at, [379]
• Tientsin to, [379]
• Siberia, first glimpse of, [12]
• Sin Fou Fou, [339]
• Sketching at Kasanskoi, [52]
• Skopti, [77]
• Snow ridges, [159]
• Sotnikoff, Mr., a visit to, [75]
• Sledge-travelling, novelty of, [162]
• Sledging, [124]
• first experiences of, [129]
• on Great Post Road, [156]
• the cold, [129]
• the padarojna, [127]
• the post houses, [128]
• the widow, [125]
• Staroster of prisoners, [142]
• Steam-launch, expedition of our, [41]
• T
• Tarantass, [239]
• Tchai Dar, [347]
• Tchien-Men gate, Peking, [351]
• Tea caravans, [160]
• with a Lama, [291]
• Thule, arrival of the, [56]
• Tientsin, arrival at, [378]
• Tiretskaya, [175]
• Touloung, [165], [174]
• Travellers, scarcity of, in Siberia, [173]
• Trees, northern limit of, [64]
• Troitzkosavsk, [245]
• Tundras, [38]
• of Northern Siberia, [47]
• Tungchow, [374]
• Turuchansk, [80]
• visit to the monastery, [81]
• V
• Ventilation, [165]
• Village communes, [164]
• priest, [85]
• W
• Walsham, Sir John, interview with, [355]
• Waygatch, the Straits of, [14]
• Werchneimbackskoi, [83]
• Wiggins’s expedition, [63]
• Wood, fuel on the Yenisei, [66]
• Worogoro, [90]
• the Tartar at, [91]
• Y
• Yenisei river, proportions of, [62]
• Yeniseisk, arrival at, [96]
• amusements, [104]
• a visit to the men’s prison, [107]
• a visit to the women’s prison, [112]
• chat with political exile, [115]
• custom-house officials, [101]
• departure of criminals, [113]
• fire brigade, [118]
• first impressions of, [98]
• gold fields, [103]
• High Street, [120]
• houses, [119]
• my lodgings, [102]
• political exiles at, [114]
• shops, [101]
• society, [105]
• the hospital, [117]
• the market, [101]
• Yambooshan, arrival at, [330]
• Yourts, [252]

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