LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
PAGE 
Portrait of Author .... Frontispiece 
A street in Orenburg .... Photograph by Author 31 
My tarantass with a troika (team of three horses) . ,, 39 
Kirghiz camel rider on the steppe ... „ 42 
The “town” of Kara-Butak . . . ,, 44 
Harnessing a troika . . . . ,, 45 
The station of Konstantinovskaya . . . „ 49 
My tarantass drawn by three camels ... „ 50 
The Kirghiz steppe, near Lake Aral . . . ,, 51 
My tarantass drawn by a patyorka (team of five horses) . ,, 53 
The Syr-daria, near Kazalinsk ... „ 55 
Another view of the Syr-daria, near Kazalinsk . ,, 57 
A miserable station near the Syr-daria . . 59 
Crossing the River Aris . . . . ,, 63 
General view of Tashkend .... ,, 65 
A “bit” of Tashkend .... ,, 69 
View from the Mohammedan portion of Tashkend . ,, 71 
A street in Tashkend .... ,, 73 
Kirghiz yurts (tents) in Tashkend ... ,, 75 
A view from Tashkend .... „ 77 
The main entrance to a bazaar . . . ,, 79 
En route from Margelan to the Ala'i Mountains . ,, 102 
The station of Austan . . . . „ 105 
The Isfairan valley . . . , ,, 109 
View between Austan and Langar . . . ,, 113 
Making a road in the Alai' Mountains . . ,, 115 
A portion of the Alai Mountains as seen from the pass of 
Tenghiz-bai . . . . . „ 119 
The Tenghiz-bai pass . . . . ,, Face page 123 
The Alai and Trans-Alai Mountains seen from the pass of 
Tenghiz-bai ..... ,, 125 
Our camp at Daraut-kurgan ... ,, 127 
My caravan in the Alai valley . . . ,, 13 1 
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