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INDEX. 



URI 



seq., 41, 62, 79, 83 ; racing at, 

 117, 202 ; ii. 20, 25, 117, 257 ; 

 caravan, 272 ; arrival at, 284 



Uriankhai, i. 84 



Urns, iron, to contain prayers, ii. 



71 

 Urumchi, i. 86 ; ii. 69, 276, 285- 



291 

 Urundushi mountains, ii. 178, 180 

 Urutes and their country, i. 143 



seq., 174, 188, 232 ; ii. 2, 6, 272, 



277 

 Utai, monastery, ii. 47 



VAMBERY, ii. 305 

 Vang, banner of, i. 205 



Vassilieff, Professor, referred to, 

 i. 74, loi, 273 



Vegetation, of desert, i. 19 ; of 

 Munni-ula, 160 ; ii. 33 ; of 

 Kan-su, 79 scqq., 243 ; of Bur- 

 khan Buddha, 177 ; of Ala-shan 

 mountains, 260 seqq. ; of Central 

 Gobi, 273 seq. 



Veterinary practice, i. 130 



Vlangali, General, xxix. i. 2, 96 ; 

 ii. 24, 70, 258 



Vocabulary, Tangutan, ii. 136 

 seqq., 303 



Vulture {УнИыг 7nonac]iiis),\. 164, 

 260 ; ii. 89 ; snow, 237 seq. ; 

 mode of shooting, 240 seqq. 



WAI-CHENG, outer town of 

 Peking, i. 92 

 Walls, mud, ii. 73 

 War, department of, i. 95, 96 

 Water, undrinkable, i. 116 ; ii. 51, 



279 

 Wathen, Mr. ii. 304 

 Wa-yang-pu, see Ning-hia-fu 

 Wei-tching-pu, see Din-yuan-ing 

 Wells, silted up, ii. 273 seq. 

 White Russia, ii. 114 

 W41d-duck, i. loi, 197 

 Wilson, Andrew, author of ' The 



Abode of Snow,' referred to, i. 



75 seq. ; ii. 116 

 Wolf, Tibetan {Lupus Chancd), ii. 



209 seqq. 



ZOO 



Women, Mongol, i. 49, 50, 69-71 ; 



as lamas, 80 ; Taldi, ii. 69 ; 



Tangutan, no, 113, 114, 121 

 Wood's journey to Oxus sources, x 

 Wormwood, i. 20, 235, 240 ; ii. 6 



YAK, the, ii. 115 seqq. ; its uses, 

 117; its milk, butter, ib. \ 

 acclimatisation of, in Europe, 

 ib. ; cross-breed, 117 ; its wool, 

 118; the wild, 186-201 ; dis- 

 eases to which it is subject, 193 ; 

 shooting, 193 seqq. 



Yakub-Beg, of Kashgar, ii. 136 



Yanghi Dabrnt, i. 274 • ii. 30 



Yang-ho R., i. 44 



Yangtse-kiang (Blue River), i. 

 35, 271 ; ii. 173, 176, 181, 221 ; 

 sources of, 222, 306 ; upper, xv, 

 xviii, xxviii 



Yarkand, ii. 170 



Yarlin-gol R., ii. 63 



Yegrai-ula range, ii. 85, 174, 275 



Yegurs, ii. 151 seq. 



Yuen, or Chinghizid dynasty, i. 

 231 



Yuen-kwan, southern suburb of 

 Peking, i. 92 



Yunan-chen, town of, ii. 76, 106, 

 107, 129, 136 



Yunnan revolt, ii. 125 



Yurta, or felt tent, i. 50 seq. ; Col. 

 Prejevalsky's, ii. 213 seq. 



ZAK (saxaul) i. 233 seq., 236 ; 

 ii- 34, 55 



Zanghin, Mongol subaltern officer, 

 i. 85, 229 ; ii. 219 



Zandamoio, or sacred tree, ii. 1 56 



Zatura>i,a. favourite Cossack dish, 

 ii. 214 



Zoology, between Kiakhta and 

 Urga, i. 8 ; of the Gobi, 20-28 ; 

 of the Munni-ula, \6^ seq ; of 

 the valley of the Hoang-ho, 

 197 ; of Ala-shan, 235 seqq., 

 259 seqq. ; ii. 263 ; of Kan-su, 

 236-251 ; of Hurku Hills, 

 275; of Northern Tibet, 186, 

 213 



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