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INDEX. 



Livadia, treaty of, 214. 

 Lomakin, General, 164, 165, 170. 

 Lu-tsu-han, Chinese official, 213. 

 Lynch, Messrs, 81, 94. 



Macao, 16. 



Maeedon, 31. 



Maclean, Mr H. W. , quoted, 339. 



MacMahon, Colonel, 143. 



Mahan, Captain A. T., quoted, 77, 321, 



325, 331, 335. 

 Malleson, Colonel, quoted, 22. 

 Malwiyeh, the, 76. 

 Manas, 214. 

 Manchuria, 4, and chaps, xxv., xx^aii., 



and xxix. ; the plains of, 308 ; Rus- 

 sian assurances concerning, 306 ; 



Russian enterprise in, 310-314. 

 Manchurian Convention of 1902, 305, 



384. 

 Manning, Mr, the only Englishman to 



visit Lhassa prior to the mission of 



1904, 344. 

 Marash, town of, 52, 88, 92 ; death of 



Icaimakam of, 38. 

 Marcanda. See Samarkand. 

 Mardin, town of, 55, 56, 92. 

 Marghilan, 198. 

 Mariinsk, town of, 294. 

 Markosoif, General, defeated by the 



Khivans, 173. 

 Marmot, 235. 

 Massy, Colonel, 40. 

 "Masterly inactivity," failure of a 



policy of, 21. 

 Mersina, 40, 42-44, 50 ; unsuitable- 



ness of, as a port, 43, 91. 

 Mersina and Tarsus-Adana railway, 



40, 86. 

 Merve, Queen of the World, 10, 21, 



167, 168, 174. 

 Meshed, 144, 171, 173. 

 Meskineh, village of, 55, 57-59. 

 Mesopotamia, 4, 6, 56, 62, 67. 

 Mevlevi dervishes, tekke of, at Konia, 



33. 

 Michie, Alexander, quoted, 315, 324, 



348. 

 Miller, Mr, quoted, 307, 310. 

 Minar Kalan, at Bokhara, 184. 

 Missis, town of, 50. 

 Missovaiya, 303. 

 Mohammerah, port of, 113. 

 Mongolia, 220 ; sport in, chap. xxii. ; 



trade of, 276. 

 Mordeeai, tomb of, 125-127. 



Moscow, 14, 17, 203, 244, 245, 273, 

 300. 



Moslemah, 30. 



Mosque, ceremony at a, 10. 



Mossul, 5, 55, 56, 60, 62, 68, 69, 88, 

 93 ; description of, 74. 



Motassem, 30. 



Muhammed II., conqueror of Constan- 

 tinople, 31. 



Mukden, capital of Manchuria, 308 ; 

 opened to foreign trade, 314 ; re- 

 occupied by Russia in October 1903, 

 385. 



Muravieff, Count, 21, 367 ; Amur 

 region annexed by, 285. 



Muscat, relics of Portuguese suprem- 

 acy at, 16. 



Mustapha Pasha, depredations of, 92. 



Muzart Pass, 227. 



Nadir Shah, 173, 183, 197. 



Nahs, 239. 



Nain Sing reaches Lhassa, 345 foot- 

 note. 



Nakarreh Khaneh (dnim-tower), 117. 



Nasr-ed-Din Shah, quoted, 119, 120. 



Nasratabad, 143. 



NasruUah, King of Bokhara, 181, 187; 

 character of, 188. 



Naus, M., 142. 



Near East, fascination of, 7 ; the cities 

 of, 9 ; British policy in, 98 ; the 

 question of, chap. xxvi. ; the ques- 

 tion mainly a strategic one, 325. 



Nebi Yunus, mound of, 72. 



Nebuchadnezzar, 7, 72. 



Nejef, 94. 



Nertchinsk, treaty of, 21, 284. 



Newmarch, Major, Resident at Bagh- 

 dad, 81. 



Nicholas I., Tsar of Russia, policy of, 

 20. 



Nicholas, the Grand Duke, steams up 

 the Golden Horn, 326. 



Niebuhr, drawings of inscriptions of 

 Persepolis made by, 128. 



Nimrud, the mound of, 73, 76. 



Nineveh, 5, 72, 73. 



Nissibin, 56, 88, 92. 



Nitobe, Inazo, quoted, 391, 392. 



Niuchwang, treaty port, 311 ; situ- 

 ation at, in autumn 1903, 313. 



Norman, Mr Henry, quoted, 190, 273, 

 286, 388, 389. 



Novo Nicholaewsk, settlement of, 273, 

 291. 



