Category: Adventure
A Caravan Frontispiece 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 Conv...
A Caravan Frontispiece 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...
2. CHAPTER I.Such was the remark made by a young lady whom I had the honour of taking down to dinner a few days previous to embarking upon the voyage of which I am about to narrate my experi...
3. CHAPTER II.IT was only in the year 1421 that Pekin became the capital of the Chinese Empire. It was up to that period merely the chief town of Northern China, as its name “Pe,” north, “Chi...
4. CHAPTER III.WE had decided, upon leaving Pekin, to spend the greater part of the day in the sedans. The very name of this vehicle has a luxurious sound, and we looked forward to pleasant ho...
5. CHAPTER IV.WE had intended making a stay of four or five days, at the most, at Kalgan. This, we thought, would give us ample time to get carts, camels, and men for the crossing of the Grea...
6. CHAPTER V.THE population of Mongolia, an elevated plateau lying about four thousand feet above sea-level, is roughly estimated at between three and four millions, but the difficulties of...
7. CHAPTER VI.OURGA can scarcely be called a city in the true acceptance of the term. Its Mongol name, “Ta Huren,” or “The Great Encampment,” better describes the huge cluster of tents that c...
8. CHAPTER VII.A SQUARE, whitewashed room, its walls and uncarpeted floor reeking with filth, and devoid of all furniture save a table and two hard, straight-backed chairs, and an overpowering...
9. CHAPTER VIII.THERE is probably no country in the world of which the generality of English people are so ignorant as Siberia. The very word conveys to the mind visions of frozen steppes and l...
10. CHAPTER IX.THE shock-headed youth who fulfilled the duties of chambermaid awoke me one morning at the Moskovskaya with the news that that day (the 19th of August) was to witness in Siberia...
11. CHAPTER X.LET the reader picture the neighbourhood of Aldershot with its undulating pine-clad hills suddenly transplanted into the depths of the black country lying around Newcastle-on-Ty...
12. CHAPTER XI.THE city of Tomsk, which is situated on the river Tom, a branch of the Obi, contains over 40,000 inhabitants. Though scarcely as large as Irkoutsk, it is a more imposing place a...
13. CHAPTER XII.THE _Perm_ was a large and comfortable vessel, replete with every modern appliance, even to a piano and electric bells, and I doubt whether one would have found a better cuisine...