INDEX. 



Abbas, Joseph, 36, 75, 237. 

 Abbott, Captain, 173. 

 Abd us-Samad, prime minister of Bok- 

 hara, 188. 

 Abu Hurareh, 59. 

 Achinsk, town of, 294. 

 Adana, capital of Cilicia, 42, 47, 50, 



52, 88. 

 Afforestation, effect on climate of 



Tashkent, 200. 

 Afghanistan, 15, 19, 22, 166, 175. 

 Afium Kara Hissar, 32. 

 Afrasiab, city of, 193. 

 Afrin, river, 88. 

 Agha Mohammed, 173 ; Hamadan 



destroyed by, 130. 

 Agriculture in Siberia, 268, 269. 

 Aigun, treaty of (1858), 215, 267. 

 Ain - ed - Dowleh, prime minister of 



Persia, 145. 

 Aintab, town of, 92. 

 Ak Keupri, 38, 40, 89. 

 Ak Su, river, 226. 

 Akmolinsk, territory of, 267. 

 Aksu, town of, 214, 227. 

 Ala-ed-Dowleh, 116. 

 Alatau Mountains, 206. 

 Albuquerque the Great, 16. 

 Aleppo, town of, 52-55, 57, 58, 60, 



61, 85, 89, 91, 94. 

 Alexander I., mysterious^ death of, 



278. 

 Alexander 11. , 388. 

 Alexander the Great, 39, 60, 129, 



192. 

 "Alexander's House," at Tomsk, 280. 

 Alexandretta, Gulf of, 89, 94. 

 Alexandrovski Mountains, 206. 



Ali Pasha, commanding at Aleppo, 57, 



60. 



Alikhanoff, Colonel, 167, 175. 



Alp Arslan, 30. 



Altai, sport in the, chaps, xxi. and 

 xxii. ; discovery as a sporting coun- 

 try of the, 243 ; description of the 

 country of the, 275 ; description of 

 journey to the, 244-246. 



Altai mining district, the, 267, 268. 



Altin Imel, 207. 



America, 18. 



Amu Daria (ancient Oxus), 176. 



Amur, river, 303. 



Anatolia, 32. 



Anatolian railway, 32. 



Anazarba, town of, 41. 



Anchiale, town of, 46. 



Andijan, town of, 166, 168, 198. 



Andrew, railway schemes of, 85. 



Angara, river, 295. 



Anglo-Japanese alliance, the, 378. 



Anglo-Persian Convention of 1903, 

 138, 142. 



Anglo-Persian trade, 141. 



Annenkoff, General, quoted, 163, 165 

 footnote. 



Antioch, town of, 52, 88. 



Autung opened to foreign trade, 314. 



Apiculture in Siberia, 271. 



Arabia, 8. 



' Arabian Nights,' 6, 79. 



Arabs, 56, 58, 59, 62, 63, 67, 68, 74, 



75, 93 ; an encounter with, 63-66. 

 Aral Sea, 172. 



Ardagh, Sir John, quoted, 376. 

 Army corps, centres of, in Turkey, 95. 

 Arslani Bell, the, 88. 



