viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEK IX. Parting Glimpses of Life in the PAGB 

 District, - 152-165 



Steamboat and Railway (p. 152) ; Visit to the Abbess 

 of Ekaterineburg (p. 153) ; Fair of Irbit (p. 157) ; 

 Fair of Troitsk (p. 159) ; Mahommedan Popula- 

 tion (p. 160) ; Punishment of Criminals (p. 163) ; 

 Temperature (p. 164). 



CHAPTER ^.Labouring Population, - 166-178 



Serfs (p. 166) ; Peasants (p. 168); Exiles (p. 169.) 



CHAPTER XI. The Conquest of Siberia, - - 179-183 

 Account by Michie (p. 178) ; by Lansdell (p. 186.) 



AUTHORITIES CITED. 



ATKINSON, p. 121; BAGNERIS, pp. 31, 38; BARRY, pp. 51, 53, 77, 

 168, 169; CHRISTIE, pp. 7, 11, 18, 22; CORRESPONDENTS, pp. 80, 100, 

 124, 130, 134, 136 ; Fullartoris Gazetteer, p. 68 ; GIBSON, pp. 25, 41 ; 

 GUINIER, p. 32 ; HEPWORTH DIXON, p. 44 ; Introduction to Study oj 

 Modern Forest Science, p. 116 ; JOSSE, p. 86 ; Journal of Science, Metals, 

 and Manufactures, p. 97 ; KIRKSHOFF, p. 86 ; LANSDELL, pp. 45, 83, 

 152, 169, 174, 180 ; MICHIE, p. 179 ; MURCHISON, p. 69, 71, 72 ; 

 OLSHERSKE, p. 30 ; RUSSIAN Forest Code, p. 144 ; WILKINSON, pp. 54, 

 153. 



