INDEX. 



405 



' Novoe Vremya," quotations from, 



341. 

 Nurah, Kalmuk hunter, 230. 

 Nushki-Sistan trade-route, 140, 339. 



Oannes, the fish god, 6. 



Ob, 244, 245, 263. 



O' Donovan, Mr, 174. 



Oil-wells in Persia, 112; at Baku, 

 157-162. 



Oil-trade, statistics of, 159-162. 



Okhotsk, Sea of, 284. 



Old Testament, the scene of the story 

 of, 7, 66. 



Oleg, 326. 



Olives, groves of, near Aleppo, 57. 



Omsk, town of, 209. 



Onguidai, village of, 245, 246, 263, 

 275, 276. 



Orenburg, town of, 183. 



"Orient Express," 30. 



Oriyaas, river, 226, 227 ; beauty of 

 scenery of, 228, 229. 



Orlandi, Giovanni, 183; death of, 184. 



Osmaniyeh, village of, 51, 52. 



Ovis Ammon, chaps, xxi. and xxii. ; 

 first seen, 249 ; first ram shot, 250 ; 

 four large rams sighted, 251 ; a 57- 

 inch head secured, 259 ; a 55-inch 

 head secured, 261 ; a successful 

 right-and-left, 261 ; horn measure- 

 ments, 263. 



Oxus, bridge across, 167, 176. 



Pakhoboff, Ivan, founder of Irkutsk, 

 295. 



Palmerston, Lord, deputation to, in 

 1857, 87. 



Pamirs, the, 20. 



Paris, treaty of, 139. 



Peacock throne, the, 134. 



Peking, 14, 21, 314 ; treaty of (1860), 

 367 ; occupied by England and 

 France, 367. 



Pendjeh incident, the, 167. 



Pennsylvania, oil-wells of, 161. 



Percy, Earl, quoted, 37 footnote. 



Persia, 4, 6, 15, 19, 22, and chaps, 

 ix.-xiii. ; a piece on the Eastern 

 chess-board, 330-343. 



Persian amenities, 116; characteristics, 

 107, 108 ; loan of 1900, 333 ; rail- 

 way convention of 1890, 334 ; tariff 

 of 1903, 139, 140. 



Perso-Afghan boundary of 1872, 142. 



Peter the Great, 388. 



Petrusevitch, General, transport scheme 

 of, 165. 



Phunsah, 60. 



Piru, inscriptions of, 109, 121. 



Pishpek, 207. 



Pistachio-trees near Aleppo, 57. 



Polonoshnaya, proposed junction of 

 Tomsk-Tashkent and Siberian rail- 

 ways, 202. 



Pombo, Kalmuk hunter, 248-250, 253, 

 256, 258-262. 



Porsuk, 90. 



Port Arthur, 14, 300, 302, 308 ; port 

 charges introduced at, 309 ; incident 

 of, 371 ; Russian convention con- 

 cerning, 373. 



Porter, Sir R. Ker, quoted, 122, 124, 

 130. 



Portugal, 16. 



Possiet Bay, 367. 



Post-road in Asia, 12 ; travelling on, 

 204, 205 ; rate of speed attained 

 on, 205 ; the Biisk - Kosh Agach 

 road, 245. 



Prestige, importance of, in the East, 

 323. 



Pyramus, river, 44. 



Rabino, Mr H., 115. 

 Railways — 



The Anatolian, 32. 



The Baghdad, 32, 56, 79, 83, 328, 

 329, and chap. viii. ; present pos- 

 ition of, 101, 102 ; trac6 of, 87. 



The Damascus-Aleppo, 95. 



The East Chinese, chap. xxv. 



The Euphrates valley, 87. 



The Haida-Pasha-Ismid, 86. 



The Hurnai and Bolan, 167. 



The Mersina-Adana, 88. 



The Murgab, 175. 



The Orenburg-Tashkent, 164, 201. 



The Qiietta-Nushki, 340, 341. 



The Smyrna- Aidin, 86. 



The Smyrna-Cassaba, 86. 



The Tomsk-Tashkent, 202, 268. 



The Transcaspian, chap, ix.; origin 

 of, 163-166 ; construction of, 167, 

 168 ; journey over, 168-177. 



The Trans-Siberian, 244, and chap, 

 xxiv. ; early schemes, 286 ; the 

 inauguration of, 288 ; the cost of, 

 288 ; description of, 289 ; cost of 

 travelling on, 289 ; defects of, 

 293. 

 Rakka, 60. 



