INDEX 



655 



Santai, 432 



Sapoznikoff, V. V., 23, 24, 371, 380, 

 403 ; publication, 638 



Sart, meaning of name, 397 ; emi- 

 grants to Bogdo-ola, 465 



Sasik Kul, 418 



Sa-veen, 544 



Saxaul forest, 459-60 



Scotch Pine, T], 78 



Seebohm, H., 38 ; publication, 638 



Semenof, P. P., 15 ; publication, 638 



Semipalatinsk, 45 



Severtzoff, 6 



Shabin-daba, 113 



Shamman doctors, 250-3, 255 



Shamar-daba Pass, 114 



Shamnianism, 152, 214, 241-56 ; 

 amongst Uriankhai, 250-6 ; 

 amongst Mongols, 311 ; amongst 

 Siberian tribes, 61 , 364 ; secrecy of, 

 250-1 ; remnants of, amongst 

 Kirghiz, 364 ; destroyed by Islam, 



364 

 Shammanist, 28 

 Shargak-taiga, 103, 107 

 Sharasume, 360, 395 ; described, 



397-9 ; important position of, 



398, 401 ; population of, 398 ; 



distance from Kobdo and other 



towns, 399 ; cost of transport at, 



405 ; we leave, 399 ; to Urum- 



chi, 542 

 Shensi, 51 

 Shi-kho, 395, 438, 439, 546 ; to 



Chuguchak route, 541-2, 547 ; 



kulon near, 602 

 Shingle-banks, at eastern end of 



Sairam Nor, 617-19 

 Shive River, 121 

 Shona Nor, 480, 481 

 Shopoli, 511, 513-14. 515 : region to 



south-east of, 514-15 

 Siberia, 6, 7, 13, 14 ; tribes of, 2 ; 



frontier of, 5, 9 ; colonization of, 



33-4; early spring in, 30 ; break-up 



of winter, 30 ; Russian conquest 



of 32-3 ; accessibility of, 34 ; 



opening up of, 34 ; prehistoric 



man in, 49 

 Siberian colonists, winter's work of, 



76 ; types of, 80 

 Siberian larch. See Larch and 



Larix sib trie a 

 Siberian servants, 82 

 Siberian spring, 76 



II — 22 



Siberian-Mongol frontier, tribes of, 



199 ; nature of, 30-2, 35, 41-7 ; 



delimitation of, 15 n,, 47 

 Sibos; 387 

 Sin-kiang, 387-8, 400 ; capital of, 



444-7 ; Chinese settlers in, 436 n. 

 Sin Taiga, 159 

 Sisti-Kem, 94, 105, 154 ; depot on, 



118 

 Skobieff ranch, iii, 155 

 Skulls, types of in tumuli, 70 

 Snow, distribution of, in Southern 



Dzungaria, 438 

 Snow-cock, of Karlik Tagh, 629 ; of 



Ati Bogdo, 629 ; of Mongolia and 



Dzungaria, 632 

 Snow-leopards, 582, 631 

 Snuff-bottles amongst Mongols, 62,63 

 Soiot, 124, 199-201 

 Solons, 387 



Songares. See Dzungars 

 Sosnovski, 20 ; visits Kumul, 495 ; 



publication, 638 

 Spring, at Kushabar, 76, 77 ; in 



Karlik Tagh, 512 ; in Southern 



Dzungaria, 534 

 Spruce-tree, yy ; Tian Shan, 627 ; 



of Karlik Tagh, 516-7 n., 629 

 Squirrels, southern limit of, 626 

 Stag, Yarkand, 582 ; in Central 



Dzungaria, 542, 608-9 

 Stamboul, 8 

 Stefansson, 217 

 Stein, 22 ; astronomical position for 



Kumul, 496 ; explorations in 



Karlik Tagh, 498 ; on antiquities 



of Am-Tam, 504-5 ; estimate of 



altitude for peaks of Karlik 



Tagh, 624 ; publication, 638 

 Steppe between Achinsk and Min- 



nusinsk, 36 ; conditions in the 



Upper Yenisei basin, 103-5, 108, 



1 12-13 

 Stocks, i.e. unwrought stones, 56, 



58 ; around tumuli, 66 

 Stone-effigy, 60, 61 

 Strands of Uriu Nor, 286-7 ; of 



Sairam Nor, 617-19; of Bar Kul, 



533 

 Su-chow, 514 



Suok, 323, 324, 325 ; river, 327 

 Surveying in Upper Yenisei Basin, 



132, 133 ; in Turgun Mountains, 



283, 288-9 

 Stis scrofa nigripes, 567 



