MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
1914
First Edition 1912
Reprinted 1914

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

This translation of Dr. Sven Hedin's Från Pol till Pol has, with the
author's permission, been abridged and edited for the use of
English-speaking young people.

CONTENTS

PART I
I. Across Europe—PAGE
Berlin to Constantinople[8]
Constantinople[13]
The Church of the Divine Wisdom[15]
The Bazaars of Stambul[20]
II. Constantinople to Teheran(1905)—
The Black Sea[26]
Trebizond to Teheran[29]
III. Through the Caucasus, Persia, and Mesopotamia(1885-6)—
St. Petersburg to Baku[34]
Across Persia[37]
Arabia[40]
Baghdad to Teheran[42]
IV. The Persian Desert(1906)—
Across the Kevir[46]
The Oasis of Tebbes[51]
V. On the Kirghiz Steppe(1893-5)—
Into Asia from Orenburg[55]
Samarcand and Bukhara[59]
The Pamir[62]
"The Father of Ice-Mountains[66]
A Kirghiz Gymkhana[69]
VI. From Persia to India (1906)—
Tebbes to Seistan[72]
A Baluchi Raid[75]
Scorpions[80]
The Indus[82]
Kashmir and Ladak[87]
VII. Eastern Turkestan (1895)—
The Takla-makan Desert[89]
Across a Sea of Sand[90]
The End of the Caravan[93]
Water at Last[97]
VIII. The Desert Waterway (1899)—
Down the Yarkand River[102]
The Tarim[105]
The Wandering Lake[107]
Wild Camels[109]
IX. In the Forbidden Land (1901-2, 1906-8)—
The Plateau of Tibet[111]
Attempt to reach Lhasa[115]
The Tashi Lama[124]
Wild Asses and Yaks[126]
X. India—
From Tibet to Simla[130]
Delhi and Agra[131]
Benares and Brahminism[134]
The Light of Asia[137]
Bombay[141]
The Useful Plants of India[142]
Wild Elephants[145]
The Cobra[148]
XI. From India to China (1908)—
The Indian Ocean[152]
The Sunda Islands[153]
Penang and Singapore[156]
Up the China Sea[157]
XII. China—
To Shanghai[161]
""The Middle Kingdom"[164]
The Blue River[169]
In Northern China[172]
Mongolia[176]
Marco Polo[179]
XIII. Japan (1908)—
Nagasaki and Kobe[185]
Fujiyama and Tokio[190]
Nikko, Nara, and Kioto[193]
XIV. Back to Europe—
Korea[197]
Manchuria[199]
The Trans-Siberian Railway[202]
The Volga and Moscow[207]
St. Petersburg and Home[210]
PART II
I. Stockholm to Egypt—
To London and Paris[215]
Napoleon's Tomb[218]
Paris to Rome[222]
The Eternal City[225]
Pompeii[229]
II. Africa—
General Gordon[236]
The Conquest of the Sudan[247]
Ostriches[250]
Baboons[252]
The Hippopotamus[253]
Man-eating Lions[256]
David Livingstone[261]
How Stanley found Livingstone[275]
The Death of Livingstone[282]
Stanley's Great Journey[287]
Timbuktu and the Sahara[297]
III. North America—
The Discovery of the New World[306]
New York[317]
Chicago and the Great Lakes[326]
Through the Great West[333]
IV. South America—
The Inca Empire[341]
The Amazons River[351]
V. In the South Seas—
Albatrosses and Whales[358]
Robinson Crusoe's Island[362]
Across the Pacific Ocean[365]
Across Australia[372]
VI. The North Polar Regions—
Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage[377]
The Voyage of the "Vega"[386]
Nansen[392]
VII. The South Polar Regions[404]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dr. Sven Hedin in Tibetan Dress[Frontispiece]
I.Berlin[6]
II.Constantinople[13]
III.Oil-Well at Balakhani[36]
IV.A Persian Caravanserai[43]
V.The Author's Riding Camel, with Gulam Hussein[46]
VI.Tebbes[51]
VII.A Baluchi Nomad Tent[76]
VIII.Srinagar and the Jhelum River[87]
IX.Digging for Water in the Takla-makan[94]
X.The Author's Boat on the Yarkand River[102]
XI.Tashi-lunpo[125]
XII.Simla[131]
XIII.The Taj Mahal[134]
XIV.Benares[136]
XV.Tame Elephants and their Drivers[147]
XVI.On the Canton River[159]
XVII.The Great Wall of China[165]
XVIII.Gate in the Walls of Peking[176]
XIX.A Japanese Ricksha[189]
XX.Fujiyama[190]
XXI.The Great Buddha at Kamakura[192]
XXII.A Sedan-Chair in Seoul[199]
XXIII.The Kremlin, Moscow[208]
XXIV.Paris[216]
XXV.Napoleon's Tomb[219]
XXVI.The Colosseum, Rome[228]
XXVII.Pompeii[233]
XXVIII.The Great Pyramids at Ghizeh[238]
XXIX.A Hippopotamus[254]
XXX.The Fight on the Congo[294]
XXXI.A Group of Beduins[300]
XXXII."Sky-Scrapers" in New York[323]
XXXIII.Niagara Falls[331]
XXXIV.Cañons on the Colorado River[339]
XXXV.Cotopaxi[344]
XXXVI.Indian Huts on the Amazons River[353]
XXXVII.A Coral Strand[369]
XXXVIII.Country near Lake Eyre[373]
XXXIX.The "Fram"[393]

LIST OF MAPS

PAGE
1. Map showing journey from Stockholm to Berlin[2]
2. Map showing journey from Berlin to Constantinople[10]
3. Plan of Constantinople[13]
4. Map showing journey from Constantinople to Teheran, latter
part of journey to Baku, and journey from Baku across
Persia to Baghdad and back to Teheran[30]
5. Map showing journey from Orenburg to the Pamir[56]
6. Map showing journey from Teheran to Baluchistan[73]
7. Map of Northern India, showing rivers and mountain ranges[82]
8. Map of Eastern Turkestan[90]
9. Tibet[112]
10. Map of India, showing journey from Nushki to Leh, and
journey from Tibet through Simla, etc., to Bombay[132]
11. The Sunda Islands[154]
12. Map showing voyage from Bombay to Hong Kong[158]
13. Map of Northern China and Mongolia[174]
14. Map showing journey from Shanghai through Japan and Korea to Dalny[184]
15. The Trans-Siberian Railway[203]
16. Map showing journey from Stockholm to Paris[216]
17. Map showing journey from Paris to Alexandria[230]
18. Map of North-Eastern Africa, showing Egypt and the Sudan[237]
19. Livingstone's Journeys in Africa[262]
20. North-West Africa[298]
21. Toscanelli's Map[308]
22. North America[325]
23. South America[343]
24. The South Seas[366]
25. The North Polar Regions[378]
26. The South Polar Regions[405]