After the war—Peace negotiations of Portsmouth—M. de Witte and Komura—National feelings—Japanese diplomatic triumph

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[Index]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Monsignor the Count Vay de Vaya
and Luskod		[Frontispiece]
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Le Palais Anglais[4]
H.I.M. The Empress of Russia[6]
H.I.M. Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia[12]
Marsanka[28]
Samara[30]
On the Volga[32]
Siberian Home[34]
A Siberian Town[36]
Railway Church Service[38]
M. de Plehve[40]
Irkutsk[48]
Lake Baikal[52]
The Station of Manchury[60]
Tsi-Tsi-Kar[68]
Kharbin[70]
A Street in Kharbin[76]
From Mukden Flats on to the Town[80]
The Entrance to the Imperial Tombs[104]
General Kuropatkin[124]
The Legation Quarter[152]
Entrance to the Forbidden City[158]
Triumphal Arch[162]
The Temple of Heaven[172]
The Empress Dowager of China[184]
The Summer Palace[188]
Seoul[240]
The Emperor's Throne in the Old Palace[248]
The Imperial Library in Seoul[252]
The Throne Room[268]
The Emperor of Korea[270]
The State Examination Hall at Pekin[292]
Shrines at Nikko[296]
Delightful Scenery[298]
Street in Japan[300]
The Tokaïdo[304]
A Typical Nippon Building[312]
Marshal Oyama[322]
On the Yang-Tze-Kiang[340]
In the Flowery Land[344]
Count Witte[384]

[INTRODUCTION]

During my prolonged stay in the Far East, I promised to send home notes whenever I came across anything interesting, or whenever I had time to do so. This is how it happened that the story of my visits to the different cities of interest, of receptions graciously granted by the various Emperors of Eastern Asia, and the chief impressions received when crossing their empires, came to be jotted down.