INDEX. 



407 



Taigar, junction for Tomsk, 292. 



Talienwan, 372. 



Tamarisk, 59. 



Tamerlane. See Timur. 



Taotai, Chinese official, visit to, 219. 



Tarantass, description of, 12, 203. 



Tarantchis, 212, 217. 



Tarsus, town of, 37, 41-43, 45, 46, 50. 



Tashkent, 12, 164. 168, 170, 198-200. 



Taurus Mountains, 37, 41, 88, 89, 229. 



Tavernier quoted, 6. 



Tazziehs (religious plays in Persia), 

 135. 



Tchakid Su, 38, 40, 88, 90. 



Tchernaieff, General, 166, 207 ; Tash- 

 kent captured by, 200. 



Tchernayevo, 198. 



Tchimkent, 170, 202; capture of, 

 207. 



Teheran, chap. xi. ; gates of, 132, 133; 

 palace at, 134. 



Teheran-Resht road, 148. 



Tekir plateau, 38. 



Tekkes valley, 217, 225, 226, 240. 



Tekrit, 76. 



Tel Habesch, 54, S9. 



Telegraph concession in Persia, 338, 

 340. 



Tent, drawbacks to, 6. 



Tewtic Pasha, 33. 



Thapsacus identified with Tipsah, 60. 



Thian Shan Mountains, 211, 226. 



Tiari Mountains, 69. 



Tibet, 15, 19, 22, 220, and chap, 

 xxvii. ; situation summed up by the 

 Government of India, 350 ; appear- 

 ance of Russia, 351 ; reported 

 Russo-Chinese convention concern- 

 ing, 353 ; suggested solution of the 

 Tibetan problem, 361. 



Tientsin, treaty of (1861), 312, 373. 



Tigris, 5, 7, 57, 69, 88 ; a journey 

 down, 75-79 ; the lands of, chap, 

 vii. 



Time the destroyer, 72. 

 Timur (Tamerlane), 10, 17, 30, 92, 

 192; Hamadan destroyed by, 130; 

 personal appearance, 193, 194 ; tomb 

 of, 197. 

 Tobolsk, 267. 

 Toghrul Bey, 30. 

 Togo, Admiral, 387. 

 Tomsk, government of, 245, 267-277 ; 

 town of, 277 ; the mystery of, 278- 

 280 ; university at, 280 ; technolo- 

 gical institute at, 281. 



Toprak Kalek, 51. 



Transcaspia, 4, 15, 21. 



Trypanni, Messrs, cotton manufac- 

 turers, 50. 



Tseng, Marquis, concludes treaty of 

 St Petersburg, 215. 



Tso-Chungt-'ang, General, 213. 



Tsybikofif, Professor, at Lhassa, 220. 



Turkestan, 4, 10, 15, 164, 170, 206, 

 221, and chap, xviii. 



Turkey, 15, 22 ; a piece on the Eastern 

 chess-board, 325-329 ; a suggested 

 solution of the Turkish problem, 

 327. 



Turkey in Asia, 4, 10, and chaps, ii.- 

 viii. ; maladministration in, 55. 



Turkomania, 10, 21. 



Turkomans, 170. 



Tze-hsi-tuan-yu, Dowager-Empress of 

 China, 380. 



Ukhtomski, Prince, quoted, 221. 



Uliissatai, 276. 



Ulukishla, 37. 



Unification of the Ottoman debt, 



96. 

 Ural Mountains, 283, 284. 

 Urfa, town of, 92. 

 Urga, capital of Mongolia, 220, 



276. 

 Urumtsi, town of, 214. 

 Ussuri line inaugurated, 14. 

 Usun Hassan, 30. 



Vaharan IV. , founder of Kermanshah, 

 115. 



Vambery, Professor, 190, 395. 



Vasco da Gama, 16, 282. 



Venice, traders of, 31. 



Verefkin, Colonel, 207. 



Vermin pit at Bokhara, 189. 



Verni, town of, 202, 207. 



Vladimir quoted, 300 footnote, 303 

 footnote. 



Vladivostok, 14, 299. 



Vodka, 272-274 ; Government mono- 

 poly of, 273. 



Waddell, L. A., quoted, 346. 



Wapiti, Asiastic, 226. 



Waugh, Consul, quoted, 91 footnote, 



102. 

 Wei-hai-Wei, 300, 314, 378. 

 Whigham, Mr A. J., quoted, 82. 

 Willcocks, Sir William, irrigation 



scheme of, 77-79. 



