INDEX 
1275 
Shorpa, soup, 653. 
Shrines, at Guma, 737; Kum-lrum, 1182- 
1196; Imam Jafer Sadik, 944; Ordan 
Padshah, 465 470; in Tashkend, 467; 
domestic, amongst Mongols, 1081, 1102. 
Compare also Masars. 
Siddhartha, Gautama, 774-775. 
Sign -posts, roads, masars, etc., 57, 62, 
731, 736, 1119, 1148. 
Sil, inundation, 668. 
Si-ning, river, 1211-1212. 
Si-uing-fu, 1199-1209; during Dungan 
revolt, 1203-1209; gates, 1201, 1203. 
Sirit, back of wild yak, 1037. 
Sirkang, temple, 1182-1189. 
Skersky, Madame, 392. 
Skobeleff, General, 71. 
Snow, in the Alai' Valley, 118 et seq., 130 
ei seq, ; camels in, 138; section through, 
15 1 ; in Takla-makan Desert, 839. 
Sobor, governor’s house, 40. 
Sogot, lake, 881. 
Sokha-bashi, garden, 653-654. 
Solonets, salt lagoons, 50. 
Sonum, Mongol chief, nor. 
Soundings, in Kara-daria, 88 et seq. ; Great 
Kara-kul, 159-164; Little Kara-kul, 
413-414; Lop-nor, 909; Narjm, 88 et 
seq. ; Rang-kul, 206; Syr-daria, 84-93. 
Sovurga, sign of temple, 1148, 11S2. 
Spirits, exorcising, 480-4S i . See also Adsins. 
Splingaert, Paul, 920. 
Sports, athletic, on Pamirs, 690-693, 698. 
Springs, Balik-masar, 396 ; Issyk-bulak, 
264-265 ; near shrine of Ordan Pad- 
shah, 469. 
Stages of travel. Dr. Pledin's, loi, 1230, 
1249-1250; in East Turkestan, 447. 
Stare.sta, starshina, master of posting-station, 
34-35- 
Station-houses, in Kirghiz steppes, 34, 49 ; 
in Takla-makan, 447. 
Steppe.s — North China, 1168, 1233, 1240; 
Kirghiz, 38, 40 et seq.., 51 ; of Russia, 
29; Tsaidam, H09, 1129, 1136. 
Storms (hail, rain, sand, snow, wind), 99, 
1 18, 1441 on I-ittle Kara-kul, 409-413; 
in Khotan-daria, 635, 641-644; Lop-nor 
region, 894-899, 915-916; Ordos, 1251; 
Takla-makan Desert, 471, 497, 501, 
524-525, 527, 608-61 1 ; Northern Tibet, 
983-984, 1007-1008, 1052-1053, 1062 et 
seq., 1251. 
Stove, for tent, 1127-1128, 1 160, 1163. 
Su-bashi, 279-281, 300. 
Suchis, ferrymen, 712-715, 942. 
Sughet, 433. 
Sultan Ali Arslan Khan, 470, 803 
Sumeh, 396. 
Sunsets, 59, 155, 296, 1025, 1103, 1120. 
Supeh, man-servant, 466. 
Surkhab, or Kizil-su, 129-130, 137, 141- 
143, 186. 
Sul, milk, 423. 
Swans, 1120. 
Syr-daria, river, 84-93, 55. 57- 
Syzran, bridge at, 30. 
Szechenyi, Count, 11. 
Tabak, wooden dish, 423. 
Tael, Chinese money, 1080, 1143. 
Tagharma, plain, 275 et seq. 
Tagharma-su, 276, 680. 
Taghdumbash, valley, 680, 702. 
Taghliks, 7, 923, 947, 966; their treachery, 
951, 955. 991-995. 1012-1015; hunters 
of wild yaks, 1036-1037; dismissed, 1097. 
Tai-thsing-i-tung-tshi, 776-781, 785. 
Tai-tung-ho, 1212. 
Tajiks, 177, 186, 277 ; of Eastern Pamirs, 
706-710; as rock-climbers, 184; tent, 
705 ; women, 353. 
Takla, 784-785. See also Takla-makan. 
Takla-makan, buried city, 450, 788-802, 
795. 799- 
Takla-makan Desert, 451-594, 521, 790- 
847; legends of, 455 457. 473-474. 477- 
Talkan, toasted flour, 474. See also Taran- 
giirill. 
Talldik, pass, 117, 176. 
Tamarisk, in desert, 586-589, 587, 791,885. 
Tamashah, spectacle, show, 107, 285 et seq., 
690-693. 098, 
Tamga-tash, inscribed stone, 215, 396. 
Tanguts, 11.3, 1136. 1151, 1157, 1165; 
threaten the caravan, 1130-1137; chiefs, 
1167, 1169; dress, 1143-1144; tent, 
1144-1147, 1145; deceived by stove- 
funnel, 1160-1163 
Tanka, temple banner, 11 to, nil, 1183, 
1187, 1194. 
Taran-gurill, burnt flour, 1 139. See also 
Talkan. 
Tarantass, travelling by, 33-83, 50, 53, 59- 
60, 63. 
Tar-bashi, 269. 
Tarim, 17, 847, 850-913, 879; basin com- 
pared with basin of Tsaidam, 1093 ; 
system of, 883-884. 
Tash, measure of length, 257, 736. 
Tashkend, 65-76. 
Tash-kurgan, 680-681, 702. 
