Chinese in the Hi valley, 257
— influence in Khokand, 503
— junks on Lake Zaisan, 131
— Massacre of, 203
— p’ai fang at Suidun, 204
— paintings, 262
-— police-master, Visit to, 234
Chirakchi bekship, ii. 40
— Departure from, ii. 43
— Poor lodging at, ii. 42
— Presents from Bek of, ii. 43
to Bek of, ii. 41
— Price of com at, ii. 40
— Sheep and cattle at, ii. 40
— Visit to Bek of, ii. 41
— Welcome by Bek of, ii. 41
. Chirchik river, 478
Chitarik, Arrival at, ii. 64
Cholera in Turkistan, 538
Choristers of Jewish Synagogue. 592
Christian persecution of Jews in Russia,
ii. 105
— work for women in Cent. Asia, ii. 356
Christianity, Muhammadan attitude towards,
ii. 302
Chronology of Russ. Central Asia, 677
Chrysidiformes of Turkistan, ii. 579
Chu .river, Description of, 359
— grf Fish of, 359
Chuchai, House-huilding at, 517
Chulak hills, Route over, 266
Chupan-Ata hill, 564
Church music on steamboat, 40
Chusovaia, Arrest of Author at, 20
Cistern at Hazret Haifa, ii. 100
~N : Kakir, ii. 60
Citadel palace at Samarkand, 577
Civilization, An oasis of, ii. 229
Clayton, Capt., on Turkoman frontier,
ii. 466
Cliffs at Kaplan Kir, ii. 418
— of the Ust Urt, ii. 392
— on the Amu-daria, ii. 200
— Upper Oxus, ii. 208
Climate of Akmolinsk, 50
Wg$sg£ Amu-daria province, 432
Ferghana province, 495
Khivan khanate, ii. 331
— — Khojend, 550
Kohistan, 538
— Kopal, 159
Kuldja, 224
Marghilan, 497
— *— Osh, 497
— — Pamir, 493
-#| Semirechia, 159
— — Sergiopol, 159
Tashkend, 449, 467
; the Steppe, 44
I Climate of Turkistan, 371
—;---- Turkmenia, ii. 440
Vierny, 271
Climbing a camel’s hump, ii. 389
Clock and towers at Bokhara, ii. 125
Coal at Bokhara, ii. 141
; — mines in Ili valley, 198
near Khojend, 515
Coinage at Kunia Urgenj, ii. 347
— in Khiva, ii. 285
Coins found near Kunia Urgenj, ii. 364
— of Central Asia, ii. 502
—^ — Chinese, 240
College life in Khiva, ii. 290
— of Ulug Beg, ii. 72
— Yelenktosh, ii. 72
Colleges of Central Asia, 586
:ur?. — Samarkand, 586
Colonization of Semirechia, 292
¿If- the Ili valley, 203
Colporteurs among the Kirghese, ii. 303
— at Askhabad, ii. 305
» — --Â- Iliali, ii. 333
■ — from the Caspian, ii. 240
I — in Bokhara, ii. 304
Khiva, ii. 304
Comet, Kirghese notions of a, ii. 364
— visible at Khoja-Moburak, ii. 59
Commerce of Bokhara, ii. 133
Communications of the Steppe, 46
Conceit of Bokhariots, ii. 25
Concert amoqg the Kirghese, 341
Conflagrations in Akmolinsk, 54
Conolly, Capt., at Khiva, ii. 280
imprisoned-at Bokhara, ii. 76
— killed at Bokhara, ii. 76
Conquests of Jinghiz Khan, ii. 273
Tamerlane, ii. 274
Constantinople, Muhammadan worship
at, ii. 297
Constantinovsk, Agriculture at, 359
Conversation with Bek of Shahr, ii. 33
— courtiers at Bokhara, ii. 154
— Khan of Khiva, ii. 261, 272, 302,'
310, 486
— Kush-beggi of Bokhara, ii. 128
Cooking utensils, Purchase of, ii. 364
Copper-mining near Kuldja, 199
Coppersmiths’ Row in Khiva, ii. 287
Corn at Chirakchi, Price of, ii. 40
— mill at Manak, .ii. 325
— stores in Ust-Kamenogorsk, 316
— -— Zaisan district, 316
Coronation-stone at Samarkand, 577
— of Tamerlane, 564
Cossack colonists in Semirechia, 292
— fisheries on Lake Zaisan, 91
— gardening, 100
[ — plundering at Kunia Urgenj, ii. 341
Cossack population of Akmolinsk, 66
— Semipolatinsk, 66
— raids on Urgenj, ii. 274
— service, 113
— settlers in Semirechia, 166
Cossacks, Arms of, 602
— enslaved by Khivans, ii. 276
in Turkistan, 601
— Uniforms of, 603
Cotton cultivation at Borokhudzir, 194
— — Merv, ii. 478
— of Cent. Asia, M. Brodowskyon, 195
— statistics, 195
Counterfeit coin at Merv, ii. 478
Court of Justice at Kunia Urgenj, ii. 358
— visitors at Kitab, ii. 18
Courtine of Catherine II. in Petersburg,
645
Cells for military officers, 648
SSRra— Garden exercise in, 648
■'.•4^' Library for prisoners, 647
-77^7 — Prisoners’ .rooms, 647
ggglfi Trial chamber, 647
— — — Visitors’ room, 646
Cowardice of Bokhariots, ii. 22, 88
Cradle accident in the desert, ii. 388
Crazy bridges at Kara-Kul, ii. 168
Creeds in Vierny, 280
Crevasses of Kaplan Kir, ii. 420
Crime among Kirghese, 411
— at Petro-Alexandrovsk, ii. 354, 358
—: in Akmolinsk, 57
— — Kuldja, 236
— Kirghese idea of, 347
Criminal exiles in Ili valley, 258
Cromie, Mr. W. H., Translation work
of, ii. 506
Crops in Turkistan, 484
— of Bokhara, ii. 164
^ Zarafshan province, 545, 608
Crustacea of Turkistan, ii. 548
Cufic inscription on Kok-tash Stone, 579
Curiosities at Tashkend, 458
— for British Museum, 275
— from Kunia Urgenj, ii. 364
— in Tashkend Museum, 455
— of Bokhara, ii. 127
Charjui, ii. 185
— purchased in Bokhara, ii. 134
Curiosity hunting among the Sibos, 213
Custody, Release of Author from, 24
Customs of the Dungans, 209
---------Kirghese, 364
D a i l y b r e a d at Charjui, ii. 179
Daily News Correspondent, Merv, ii. 467
Dancing boys, or Batchas, 209
— at Bokhara, ii. 89
Kitab, ii. 15
I Dancing boys dressed as girls, ii. 90
14- dervishes at Constantinople, ii. 297
W m — Samarkand, ii. 295
I Darkness in the desert, ii. 397
Darwaz, Iron mines near, ii. 54
— Oshanin’s description of, ii. 54
Darwazis subjugated by Bokhariots, ii. 53
Daudan, Crossing the, ii. 319
Death of M. Fedchenko, ii. 513
— M. Severtsoff, ii. 508
— rate in Tashkend hospital, 450
Deaths in Semipolatinsk, 108
Debtors and creditors in heaven, ii; 220
Decapitation ofMuhammâd-Emin, ii. 457
Deflection of the Oxus, Cause of, ii. 409
Dekche, Arrival at, ii. 393
-ri— Urun-daria at, ii. 393
De Marny on Kyzyl-Kum geology, 426
Demerdjan well, ii. 429
Demoralization of camels, ii. 428
Dependence of Merv upon Khiva, ii. 486
Derbent, Iron Gates defile near, ii. 51
Dervishes at Khiva, ii. 298
D e s e r t , Ablutions in the, ii. 424
— Animal life in, ii. 393
to— around Merv, ii. 455
— “ Beauty ” sleep in, ii. 387
— Bible-searChing in, ii. 423
Bread-baking in, ii. 412
— Breakfast in, ii. 380
— Camel accident in, ii. 377
4“ — loading in, ii. 387
— Camping in, ii. 383
¡4“ Caspian sighted from, ii. 425
to- Cattle-sheds in, ii. 394
— Character of guides, ii. 397
— Correction of Murad for stealing, ii. 396
— Cradle accident in, ii. 388
Dangers of, ii. 231
— Darkness in, ii. 397
— Dessert in, 340
— Discipline in, ii. 387
— Doctoring in, ii. 378
— Fatigue of travelling in, ii. 423
— Forty winks in, ii. 428
— Game-birds of, ii. 422
— “ Good-luck ” in, ii. 414
— Hurrying drivers in, ii. 381
— “ In bed ” in, ii. 415
— Inconveniences of travelling in, ii. 424
glr Jackdaws in, ii. 422
¡4- Krasnovodsk sighted from, ii. 433
— Lack of comforts in, ii. 423
— locked, ii. 229
— Low spirits in, ii. 422
iff- Marmots in, ii. 422
— Order of march in, ii. 387
Pastime in, ii. 423
— Perils of, ii. 172