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INDEX. 



Ramazan, fast of, 29. 



Rambaud, Alfred, quoted, 278. 



Ramsay, Professor, quoted, 38, 39, 90 

 footnote. 



Ras-el-Ain, 56, 57, 88, 92. 



Rawlinson, Sir H., inscriptions de- 

 ciphered by, 122 ; quoted, 332. 



Rebecca, well of, 92. 



Resht, capital of Ghilan, 150. 



Rhages, ruins of, 136. 



Rishta, worm, 180. 



Roads in the East, 35, 37. 



Roe-deer, Asiastic, 226. 



Rome, 31. 



Russell, Dr, quoted, 54. 



Russia, 13, 17-22 ; enterprise of, in 

 Persia, 148, 149 ; organisation in, 

 387 ; the soldier of, 389 ; troops of, 

 in Manchuria, 304. 



Russo-Persian Convention of 1901, 

 138 ; railway convention of 1890, 

 144. 



Saadi, the Persian poet, quoted, 194. 



Sabkah, 60. 



Sadiyeh, 89. 



St Paul's Institute at Tarsus, 45. 



St Petersburg, treaty of (1881), 215 ; 

 made capital of Russia, 285. 



St Sophia, mosque of, 30. 



Sajur, river, 88. 



Salaiire, coal and iron mines at, 202. 



Salisbury, Lord, 351 ; quoted, 378. 



Samara, town of, 76. 



Samarkand, 10, 12, 33, 170, and chap, 

 xvii. ; capital of Timur, 193; cap- 

 tured by the Russians, 194, 195; 

 monuments of, 195-197 ; the Rigis- 

 tan at, 196. 



Sardanapalus, 45, 46. 



Sar-i-pul, 114. 



Saros, river, 44, 47. 



Sarts of Central Asia, 218. 



Saxsaul, shrub, 176. 



Schemai, the ataman, 172. 



Schlumberger quoted, 48 footnote, 

 51. 



Schouvaloff, Count, 174. 



Schuyler, Mr E., 190; quoted, 197, 

 207, 213. 



Semipalatinsk, 202, 267 ; population 

 of, 208 ; town of, 209. 



Semirechensk, 207. 



Sennacherib, 7. 



Sergiopol, town of, 208. 



Seyid-ibn-'Othman, 192. 



Shah, Mozuffer-a-Din, interview with, 



133. 

 Shah Zindeh, mosque of, 197. 

 Shahraban, village of, 110. 

 Shahrisabs, town of, 195. 

 Shakespeare, Sir Richmond, 173. 

 Shalmanezer, 66, 73. 

 Sharrukin, King of AgadS, 71. 

 Shehdadi, 56, 66. 

 Shimonoseki, treaty of, 369 ; Russian 



note to Japan as a result of, 369. 

 Shinar, land of, 7. 

 Shir Khan, 113. 

 Shirin, the bride of King Khosroe, 



110, 115. 

 Shumir and Accad, the land of, 6, 7. 

 Shushter, 113. 

 Siberia, 4, 13, 14, 208, and chaps. 



xxiii. and xxiv. ; conquest of, 283 ; 



villages of, 271 ; peasants of, 272. 

 Sikkim Convention (1893), 348. 

 Simpson, Mr J. Y., quoted, 2b9, 271, 



273, 279. 

 Sinjar Mountains, 56, 57, 66, 67, 69. 

 Sistan, 143. 



Skobelefl; General, 166, 170. 

 Skrine and Ross quoted, 168 footnote, 



187. 

 Smuggling on the Siberian frontier, 



263. 

 Sparta, 31. 

 Sport in the Thian Shan, chap, xx.; in 



Mongolia, chaps, xxi. and xxii. 

 Stambul. See Constantinople. 

 "State lotteries concession," 333. 

 Stempel, Major, 194. 

 Stoddart, Colonel, 181 ; the story of, 



187-190. 

 Storks, 110. 



Story-teller of Asia, the, 110, 196. 

 Strabo quoted, 46. 

 Stretensk, 303. 

 StroganofF, merchants, 283. 

 Stumm, Herr, quoted, 217. 

 Suidon, "215. 

 Suleiman, 30. 

 Sungari, river, 306. 

 Surah Khani, 157. 

 Swayne, Major H. G. C, 244, 246 



footnote. 



Ta-ShihChiao, junction for Niuch- 



wang and Peking, 308. 

 Tabriz, Russian engineers at, 144. 

 Taganrog, death of Alexander I. at, 



278. 



