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INDEX. 



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CRO 



Bortson well, ii. 276 

 Botanical gardens, of St. Peters- 

 burg, i. 95, 96 

 Bread, leavened, ii. 58 

 Brehm, the naturalist, referred to, 



ii. 239 

 Budar/iana, a desert shrub, i. 



19, 122, 235; ii. 55, 159, 269 

 Buddha, image of, i. 9, 21 1; ii. 71 

 Buddha-La, i. 274, 275 

 Buddhas, incarnate, xxxiii seqg. 

 Buddhism, xxxii seq., i. 74 

 Buguk-gol R., ii. 107 

 Bugutui Mt., i. 257 seqq.; ii. 262 

 Bugutui-gol R., i. 258 

 Bukha-nor lake, ii. 182 

 Bulun-tokhoi, ii. 123, 126 

 Buriat, see Cossack 

 Burkhan-Buddha range, xv scq., 



ii. 74, 166, 174 seqq.; the name, 



175 ; 177, 201, 213, 224 

 Burnes, ii. 304 

 Bushell, Dr., referred to, xxi, i. 



105, 283 

 Buzzard {Buteo ferox), i. 27 



CALACHAN, see Ning-hia-fu 

 Camels, caravans of, i. 36 

 seq.\ their flesh used as food, 

 43 ; the two-humped or Bac- 

 trian, 120-131 ; breeds of, 121 ; 

 their habits, 121 seq.\ food, 122; 

 endurance, 123 ; timidity, 124 ; 

 rearing, 124 ; training, 125 ; 

 loads, 126 ; rate of travel, 127 ; 

 coat-shedding, 127 ; ailments, 

 128, 130 ; uses, 129 ; treatment 

 of, 130 ; their aversion to \vater, 

 179 ; loss of, by expedition, ii. 

 16 seqq. ; their sufferings from 

 damp, 98 ; wild, xxvi seqq.., 169 

 seq. 



Caragana, a flowering shrub, i. 

 190, 259 ; ii. 80, 86 seq.., 260, 

 262 



Caravan, Colonel Prejevalsky's re- 

 organisation of, i. 133 seq., 216 



Carelin, j\I., ii. 236 



Carp, ii. 32 seq. 



Cart, Chinese, i. 4 



Cattle, prices of, in Mongolia, i. 

 57 ; importance of, 149 ; wild, 

 2 1 2 seqq. 



Chadau (Chatow), i. 44 seqq. 



Chagan-kuren, i. 174 

 Cliagan-7ior, i. 283 

 Chagrin-gol R., ii. 61, 63 

 Cha-ho R., i. loo 

 Chakhars and their country, i. 

 26, 32 seq., 84, 117, 143 ^'-'q-y 

 152, 169, 184, 203 

 Chang-kia-kou, see Kalgan 

 Chebayeff, Pamphile, a Cossack, 



ii. 25, 67 

 Cheng-ta-fu, district of, i. 85, 103 

 Chertinton temple, ii. 67, 76, 83, 



96, 233, 242 

 Chihli, see Pechihli 

 Chinese mob, i. 150 seq., 176 seq. 

 Chinese swindling, i. 37 

 Chinese year and cycle, i. 27S seq. 

 Chinghiz-Khan, his sepulchre, i. 

 16, 181, 205 ; traditions con- 

 cerning, 167, 194, 203, 216, 

 221, 279 ; ii. 302 

 Chingtu-fu, ii. 306 

 Chobsen, temple of, ii. 38 seq., 47, 

 58, 67 seq., 70 seqq.; militia at, 

 65, 72, 98 ; arrival at, -J^, 98 ; 

 dangerous position at, 100 seq.; 

 departure from, 103 ; siege of, 

 127 scq.; return to, 230, 233 

 Choh'Ji or click (copper coin), ii. 3 

 Chorchi, temple of, i. 137 

 Christianity in Mongolia, i. 83, 134 

 Chulkan (assembly of tribes), i. 85 

 Chutun-dzamba, Mongol guide, 



ii. 172 seq., 219 seq. 

 Clouds, rainless, ii. 267 

 Coal-beds in the Ala-shan range, 



i. 259 

 Compradors, i. 40 scq. 

 Cofwo/znthts tragacanthoidesy a 



prickly shrub, i. 235 

 Conveyance in Mongolia, modes 



of, i. 4 

 Cookery, Chinese, i. 43 

 Cooper, T. Т., xxxii 

 Copper currency, inconvenience 



of, i. 97 seq. 

 Cossacks, i. 95, 99, 123, 133, 147, 



201, 217, 222, 229; ii. 25 seqq. 

 Cotoneaster, ii. 261 

 Cranes, flocks of, ii. 102 

 Crossoptilon auritum, see Long- 

 eared Pheasant 

 Crows of the Gobi, their rapacity, 

 i. 21, 22 



