INDEX. 



315 



LAN 



Lang-chau, town of, ii. 56, 75, 123 



Lang-hwaisa ferr>', i. 179 



Larks, i. 8, 25, 197, 236 ; Mongol, 



2\seqq. ; great, ii. I45;2I2, 230 

 LarvcC of gad-fly in antelope, ii. 207 

 Latitude, fatigue in determining, 



i. 115 

 Lespcdesa, ii. 79 

 Lhassa, i. 11, 76, 78 ; road to, 128, 



276; ii. 222; 47, 103, 141, 154, 



304, 306 

 Liang, called by Col. Prejevalsky 



Ian, i. 96 

 Liang-chu mount, ii. 55, 60 

 Linnaeus, ii. 293 

 Linnets, i. 8 ; ii. 212 

 Liquorice, i. 191 

 Li-vang-ti ferry, i.. 198 

 Lizards, i. 193, 236, 237 

 Lob, xxvii, xxviii 

 Lob, Lake, xxix, i. ij; ii. 155, 166, 



168 

 Longitude, no means of fixing, i. 



Lontcera car id га ^ ii. 79 

 Luan-ho, see Shandu-gol R. 



MACGAHAN, author of 

 ' Campaigning on the 



Oxus ' referred to, i. 234 

 Mahommedans at Kalgan, i. 35 ; 



in China, ii. 124, 304; their 



cowardice and cruelty, 126 seq. 

 Maidari (Maitreya), the future 



Buddha, i. 9 

 Mailla Pere, i. 271 

 Maimaicheng, i. 8 

 Manchu country, i. 232 

 Manchus, their conquest of China, 



i. 49 

 Mandarins, interviews with, i. 174 



seqq., 222 seqq. 

 Manhadai range, i. 7 

 Manipe, i. 282 

 Manul, the {Fells Afaiiul), ii. 



187, 289, 298 

 Map-making, i. 114 

 Marmots, i. 164; ii. 54, 88, 247, 282 

 Martens, sand-, i. 236 

 Matches, Viennese, in China, ii. 



94 



Matrenitsky, Mr., i. 40 

 Maximovitch, Professor, ii. 79, 85, 

 291 



MUN 



Medicine, Tibetan, ii. 156 

 Merchants, Russian, at Kalgan, 



i-35 



Mianeh, ii. 290 



Min R. ii., 306 



Ming dynasty, i. 232 



Mirage, ii. 280 



Missionaries, Protestant, i. 35 ; 

 Roman Catholic, 134-136 



Missions, Russian, at Peking, i. 

 3, 92 ; foreign, lb. 



Mohl, M. Jules, xi 



Mongolia, rate of travel in, i. 64 ; 

 its boundaries, 83 ; divisions, 

 84 ; princes, 86 ; its population, 

 87 ; nobles, 88 



Mongol, alphabet, i. 280 ; orien- 

 tation, 277 



Mongols, Chinese impositions on, 

 i. 2)7 '■> their costume, 49 ; un- 

 cleanliness, 51 ; domestic uten- 

 sils, 52 ; food and beverages, 

 52 seqq. ; gluttony, 55, 56, 276 ; 

 importance of cattle to, 57 seq. ; 

 their indolence, 58 ; horseman- 

 ship, 59 ; physical capabilities 

 and defects, 60 ; cow'ardice, 61 ; 

 sagacity and obtuseness, 62 ; 

 curiosity, 63 ; modes of saluta- 

 tion, 63, 72 ; distances, how 

 calculated by, 64 ; their lan- 

 guage, 66 seq. ; songs, 69 ; 

 marriage customs, 69, 70 ; 

 domestic relations, 71 ; hospi- 

 tality, 72 seq.; religion, 74, 149 ; 

 superstitions, 81 ; disposal of 

 dead, 82 ; organisation, 84 j-^$^.; 

 princes, 86 seq. ; their classes, 



87 ; laws, 88 ; military service, 



88 ; venality, 144 ; traffic with, 

 147 ; their invasions of China, 

 1 82 seq.\ of Ala-shan, 237 seq.\ 

 of Koko-nor, ii. 150 seqq.; 

 Princess, 161 



Montgomerie, Col., his pundits, 



xix ; ii. 305 

 Moorcroft, ii. 146 

 Aloschus fnoschl/erus, see Deer 

 Moscow, i. 44 

 Mosquitoes, ii. 167 

 Mountain-ash, ii. 78 

 Mukhur range, i. 7 

 Munhu-tsu, Mongol name for 



Lhassa, ii. 185 



