CHAPTER XII.

PERM TO CALAIS 626

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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 Convict 448 A Night in a Post-house 478 The Post-house at Rasgonnaia 493 A Siberian Village Street 496 A Prison Barge on the Obi River 614

MAP.

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FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND.