Alexander Michie

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE SIBERIAN OVERLAND ROUTE FROM PEKING TO PETERSBURG.

CHAPTER I. SHANGHAE TO TIENTSIN.

CHAPTER II. TIENTSIN TO PEKING.

CHAPTER III. PEKING.

CHAPTER IV. PEKING TO CHAN-KIA-KOW.

CHAPTER V. CHAN-KIA-KOW.

CHAPTER VI. MONGOLIA.

CHAPTER VII. MONGOLIA continued .

CHAPTER VIII. MONGOLIA continued

CHAPTER IX. URGA TO KIACHTA.

CHAPTER X. MONGOLS HISTORICAL NOTES.

CHAPTER XI. MONGOLS PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CHARACTERISTICS.

CHAPTER XII. KIACHTA.

CHAPTER XIII. KIACHTA TO LAKE BAIKAL.

Chapter XIV. LAKE BAIKAL TO IRKUTSK.

CHAPTER XV. IRKUTSK.

CHAPTER XVI. IRKUTSK TO KRASNOYARSK.

CHAPTER XVII. KRASNOYARSK TO TOMSK.

CHAPTER XVIII. TOMSK TO OMSK.

CHAPTER XIX. OMSK TO OCHANSK.

CHAPTER XX. RUSSIAN AND SIBERIAN PEASANTRY.

CHAPTER XXI. KAZAN POLISH EXILES.

CHAPTER XXII. KAZAN TO PETERSBURG.

CHAPTER XXIII. RUSSIA AND CHINA.

POSTSCRIPT.

Photo. by Beato.          (Frontispiece.)
PAGODA AND GARDENS OF THE EMPEROR'S SUMMER PALACE,
YUEN-MIN-YUEN.

THE
SIBERIAN OVERLAND ROUTE
FROM PEKING TO PETERSBURG,

THROUGH THE DESERTS AND STEPPES OF MONGOLIA,
TARTARY, &c.

BY ALEXANDER MICHIE.