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INDEX. 



Gazelle shot, 255. 



Genesis, quotations from, 7. 



Genoa, traders of, 31. 



Geolt Su, river, 225. 



Geok Teppe, 12, 17, 166, 170. 



George III., remarks of, 19. 



Germanophobia in England, 98, 103. 



Germany, 18 ; at Constantinople, 327; 

 promoters of the Baghdad Railway, 

 chap. viii. 



Ghilan, province of, 147, 150. 



Giaour Dagh (ancient Amanus), 41, 

 52, 88, 91. 



Gobi, desert of, 220. 



Gold law in Siberia, 297. 



Golden Horde, the, 284. 



Golden Horn, the, 27. 



Goldsmid, Sir F., quoted, 80. 



Golovin, treaty of Nertchinsk con- 

 cluded by (1689), 367. 



Goltz, General Von, 327. 



Gordon, General, summoned by China, 

 214. 



Gotarzes, King of Parthia, inscriptions 

 of, 123. 



Gozan, river, 7, 66. 



Granville, Lord, 174. 



Grotefend, first to decipher cuneiform 

 writing, 128. 



Guffa, a Babylonian boat, 80. 



Guru, village of, 358. 



Guthrie, Mr, quoted, 156. 



Gyangtse, mission authorised to pro- 

 ceed to, 356 ; occupied, 358. 



Habor, 66. 



Halah, 66, 114. 



Haleb. See Aleppo. 



Hamadan, 80, 124-130 ; population of, 



124 ; bazaars of, 125. 

 Hamah, 54. 

 Hamidiyeh, 50. 



Hammum Ali, hot baths of, 93. 

 "Happy Valley," the, 248. 

 Hardinge, Sir Arthur, 142, 145. 

 Harran, 56, 57, 88, 92. 

 Hart, Sir Robert, 347 footnote ; 



quoted, 366, 387, 390; scheme 



of Chinese reorganisation of, 381. 

 Harthama, 192. 

 Harun-al-Raschid, 30, 39. 

 Hassan Beyli, village of, 52, 88. 

 Hatzfeldt, Count, 327. 

 Hazret Meviana, founder of Mevlevi 



dervishes, 33. 

 Henry the Navigator, Prince, 15. 



Hephsestion, death of, 129. 



Herat, 175. 



Herodotus quoted, 78, 80, 107. 



Hippodrome at Constantinople, 29. 



Hit, 62. 



Hogarth, Mr, quoted, 58 footnote, 93. 



Hoh-Hah, Kalmuk hunter, 230. 



Holdich, Sir Thomas, quoted, 20. 



Horns, 54. 



Hosie, Consul, quoted, 385. 



Hulvan, river, 110. 



Ibex (Capra sibirica), chap. xx. ; a 48- 

 inch head secured, 232; 46 -inch 

 and 49 -inch heads secured, 235 

 a 46^ - inch head secured, 237 

 a 51| - inch head secured, 239 

 a 50-inch head secured, 240 ; horn 

 measurements, 241. 



Ibrahim Pasha, 39, 56 ; depredations 

 of, 92. 



Igde, Russian defeat at, 173. 



Ignatieff, General, 368. 



Hi, river, 207, 216, 225, 228. 



Imam Hussein Askar, tomb of, at 

 Samara, 76. 



Imam Mohammed el Mahdi, mosque 

 of, at Samara, 76. 



Immuration, an instance of, 111. 



"Imperial Ottoman Baghdad Rail- 

 way Company," the, 101. 



India, 9, 19, 23 ; the pivot of British 

 supremacy Ln Asia, 321, 396. 



Indo-Persian trade, 141. 



Irkutsk, 161, 270, 281 ; origin of, 

 295 ; present status of, 295 ; gold- 

 smelting laboratory of, 296. 



Irtish, river, 209, 284. 



Isaiah, quotation from, 8. 



Ishak Khan, at Samarkand, 198. 



Islayeh, 52. 



Ismid, town of, 32. 



Ismil, village of, 35. 



Issi Kul, lake, 207. 



Ivanotf, General, 199. 



Japan, 18 ; the soldier of, 390. 

 Jebel Abdul Azziz, 56, 67. 

 Jebel Nur, 41, 51. 

 Jebel Tek Tek, 92, 

 Jebul, Lake, 57. 

 Jengis Khan, 17, 192. 

 Jeremiah, quotations from, 8. 

 Jergol, Kalmuk hunter, 230. 

 Jews at Hamadan, 124. 

 Jihun, river, 51. 



