Crossing the Tekkes \'alley ... •■• ... ... ... ■■• ••• 289 



"We Forded the Tekkes River'' 291 



" I Camped the Night by some Kahiiuk Auls " 292 



A JMosque in Kulja ... ... ... ... .•• .•• .•■ ... 295 



The Entrance to a Chinese Temple 299 



A Kulja Lady 3o.3 



Gateway of a Taranchi Mosque ... ... ... ... ... ... 3°4 



Gateway of the Chinese City in Kulja ... ... ... ... ... 3°7 



The Governor of Kulja Returns My Call ... ... ... ... ... 3'° 



A Street in Suidun 3^S 



A Gateway Near the Sairam Nor 317 



" Their Astonishment at My Kit was Great " ... ... ... ■•. 323 



The Ebi Nor Lake, where I Found Wild Horses 325 



"Two Kazaks Joined Me from the liorotala " ... ... ... ... 327 



A Mongol Karaul ... ... ... ... ... .. ... ••• 329 



Across the Wind-swept Plains of Mongolia ... ... ... ... ... 333 



The Great (kite of Chuguchak... ... =.. ... ... ... ... 337 



The Governor of Tarbagatai and His Staff 339 



Guests at the Shooting Party 345 



A Halt on the Mongolian Steppes 349 



" I Halted Near the Ruins of a Deserted Village" 351 



Lamas at Wong Who Came out to Meet the Expedition 357 



Through a Land of Ice and Snow 365 



The Shores of the Kesil Bach Lake 369 



"We Crossed the Black Irtish River, a Solid Sheet of Ice which would 



have Borne a Siege Train" 371 



Caravan Men who Mutinied in the Black Irtish \'alley 373 



Ismail Bai... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 375 



Kazak Women in the Mongolian Altai ... ... ... ... ... 377 



Trekking Through the Black Irtish Valley 391 



Kazak Women and Child in Mongolia 393 



The Author and Two Russian Officers ... ... ... ... ... 399 



My Orderly and a Siberian Soldier Outside the Hospital at Zaisan ... 400 



Summer View of a Street in Zaisan 402 



Kirghiz and Camel Cart... 403 



Giyani in Siberian Dress 405 



Khatimski and My Orderly 407 



A Halt at a Siberian Post House 411 



A Siberian \'illage in Mid-Winter 413 



Kazaks Watching Our Departure from a Post House 416 



An Aerial Railway in the Siberian Altai 417 



A Portly Siberian 419 



Camel .Sledges in Siberia ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 421 



A Siberian Fish Market 422 



Through the Siberian Forests 423 



"The Road Becomes Worn into a Succession of Transverse Ridges" ... 425 



Neari the End of the Journey— the last Post House 427 



