INDEX. 



401 



and xxix. ; Russia stands security 

 for, 371 ; reform movement in, 

 379. 



Chino-Japan war (1894), 368. 



Chirol, Mr V., quoted, 221. 



Chita, town of, 303. 



Christie, the Rev. Dr, 45. 



Chukur Ova, the eastern portion of 

 Cilicia, 41. 



Chumbi valley, fighting in, 221. 



Chunghou, Chinese official, 214. 



Church, Mr, quoted, 226. 



Chuya, river, 247, 276. 



Cicero, 39. 



Cicilian Gates, the, 37, 39 ; not to be 

 traversed by the railway, 40, 88. 



Cilicia, 34, 40-42, 51, 52, 88, 90, and 

 chap. iv. 



Cleopatra, 47. 



Communications, importance of, be- 

 tween England, Australia, and the 

 Far East, 22, 322 ; in Persia, 143, 

 144, 338 ; lack of, in Turkey, 80-83 ; 

 necessity of, in Siberia, 285. 



ConoUy, Captain, 181 ; the story of, 

 187-190. 



Constantino, Emperor, 27. 



Constantinople, 27, 29, 30, and chap, 

 ii. 



Convicts in Siberia, 294. 



Corruption in Turkey, 48, 49 ; in 

 Russia, 388. 



Cossacks, 210, 389 ; conquest of 

 Siberia by, 284. 



Cotton industry in Turkey, 50 ; in 



Central Asia, 202. 

 Cumberland, Major, 243. 

 Cuneiform writing, method of deci- 

 phering discovered, 128. 

 Curzon, Lord, quoted, 9, 22, 37 foot- 

 note, 123, 133 footnote, 166, 180 

 footnote, 182, 194, 322, 323, 336, 

 337, 341, 352 footnote, 397. 

 Cydnus, river, 44, 45, 47. 

 Cyrus, 30, 39, 60. 



Dairy-farming in Siberia, 292. 



Dalni, town of, 161, 302 ; description 



of, 308. 

 Damascus, 54, 55. 

 Daniel, tomb of, 197. 

 Darcy, oil concession, 112. 

 Darius, 9, 30, 60, 107; inscriptions of, 



109, 121, 128; deciphered by Sir 



Henry Rawlinson, 129. 

 David, tomb of, 114. 



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Davidson, Mr J. W., quoted, 305 



footnote, 307 footnote. 

 Deir-el-Zor, town of, 55, 57, 59, 60, 



62, 68. 

 Deir Hafr, village of, 58. 

 Demavend, Mount, 229. 

 Demidoff, Prince, 243, 244, 248. 

 Desert of Mesopotamia, 59, 63, 66, 



69, 92, and chap. vi. ; of Central 



Asia, 175, 176. 

 Diala, river, 110. 



Diarbekr, town of, 55, 57, 89, 92. 

 Diaz, Bartholomew, 16. 

 Dinek Tash at Tarsus, 45, 46. 

 Dinner-party, a curious, 113, 114. 

 Dizful, 113. 



DorjiefiF, at Lhassa, 220, 352. 

 Douglas, Professor, quoted, 213, 347 



footnote. 

 Dungans, the, 212. 



"East Chinese Railway Company," 



the, 301. 

 Ecbatana, 129. 

 Egypt, 139. 

 Elias, Mr Ney, 243. 

 Enzeli, 151. 



Eregli, village of, 35, 36, 87, 89. 

 Erivan, town of, 144. 

 Erzerum, treaty of, 139. 

 Esarhaddon, 72. 

 Eski Sher, 32. 

 Esther, tomb of, 125-127. 

 Euphrates, 7, 55, 57-60, 62, 85, 88. 



Far East, the, 21 ; question of, chaps. 



xxviii. and xxix. ; war in, 386-393. 

 Ferghana, 21. 



Ferhad, of Persian myth, 110, 115. 

 Ferhit Pasha, 33. 

 Ferry across the Euphrates, 62 ; 



across the Hi, 228 ; across the 



Khabur, 66 ; across the Tekkes, 



240. 

 Fire, natural, at Baku, 156. 

 Fire-temple at Surah Khani, 157. 

 France, 18. 



Gabet and Hue, Lazarist fathers, 

 reach Lhassa, 345. 



Ganjnameh, the, 128. 



Gardens in the East, 8. 



Garter Mission, the, 337. 



Gaul, 31. 



Gavazzi, Modesto, quoted, 184 foot- 

 note. 



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