From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin

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LAKE BAIKAL TO KIACHTA.

Observations on Eastern Siberia and its inhabitants--Their dream of independence--Motives that might contribute to independence --Example of the Chinese--The Yakuts and the inhabitants of Kamtchatka 266