F e r g h a n a province:
Explorations of Kostenko, 493
— Severtsoff, 494
— Extension under Narbuta, 504
Fauna of, 499
— Form of, 490
jjMjBS Geology of, 497
— Gharm-sol in, 496
— 1 Independence <3f, 504
—- — Kara-Kul lake, 495
§----- Lakes of, 494
Madali and his conquests, 504
Minerals of, 497
— Pamir mountains, 492
— Climate of, 493
—----— Fauna of, 494
- — — —- Flora of, 494
— — Petroleum in, 498
- — Pilgrimages in, 500
—. — Population of, 42
— Rivers of, 493
— Scriptures for, 443
Size of, 490
Skobeleff in, 512
— Subjection to China, 503
Surface of, 491
— —^ Tobacco culture in, 499
— Towns of, 398, 499, 501
— Turquoise in, 497
— Vegetation of, 497
Ferns of Zarafshan province, 609
Ferries on the Upper Oxus, ii. 196
Ferry-boat on the Oxus, ii. 176
Festivals of the Sarts, ii. 250
Feuds of the Kirghese, 294
Fever art Petro-Alexandrovsk, ii. 234
Fevers in Tashkend, 449
Field for female missionaries, ii. 356
Fifty-shilling tea ! 264
Fighting ram at Khiva, ii. 259
Finland, Bible-work in, ii. 240
Finsch, Dr., on fauna of Ala-Kul, 147
^Turkistan Zoology, ii. 507
Fire-worshippers at Surakhane, ii. 500
Fires in Akmolinsk, 54
Semipolatinsk, 115
Fish at Khojeili, ii. 349
Krasnovodsk, ii. 496
— in Ala-Kul lake, 148
■\t— Irtish river, 79
— Zaisan lake, 90 -
— of Amu-daria, ii. 243
Price of, ii. 243
Asia (Central), ii. 530
Atrak river, ii. 439
-7- jl^ Balkhash lake, 180
■— Chu river, 359
Issik-Kul lake, 159
— Khivan khanate, ii. 269
Fish of Turkistan, ii. 243, 530
— Zarafshan river, ii. 510
Fisheries on Lake Zaisan, 91
Floating down the Oxus, ii. 200
Flora of Amu banks, ii. 223
— — Omsk, 80
— ,— Pamir, 494
»- Russian Turkistan, ii. 618
— — Turkmenia, ii. 440
— Zarafshan province, 557
Flour mills at Manak, ii. 325
j Fogs in Turkistan, 377
Food at Karategin, ii. 54
:-57— jj$ Khanki, ii. 251
of the Kalmuks, 215
----------Kirghese, 337
Turkistan troops, 603
^ — Turkomans, ii. 446
Fording the Zarafshan river, 559
Fords of Upper Oxus, ii. 195
Forest plantations, ii. 8
Forests of saxaul, ii. 411
jjjl- Semipolatinsk, 93
Semirechia, 160
Fort Vernoe, 270
Fortress at Manak, 326
— Krasnovodsk, ii. 498
— Petro-Alexandrovsk, ii. 234
— of Borokhudzir, 193
— Charjui, ii. 177
<77-^— Hazarasp, ii. 313
^ ‘Sr Iliali> 333
— Kaushid Khan, ii. 475
— — Zmukshir, ii. 332
Fortress Prison in Petersburg, 640
— Admission difficult; 640
Esiig- Courtine of Catherine II., 642
— Eye-witnesses’ testimony, 651
Misrepresentations concerning, 642
— Newspaper criticisms on Author’s
visit, 641
— Nineteenth Century on, 657
wglf- Statements of ex-prisoners, 652
— ¡St- Troubetzkoy bastion, 641
¡¡I" Visits to prisoners, 644
Forts along Irtish river, 127
— erected in Steppe, 408
— Syr-daria province, 409
— of Turkistan, 601
“ Forty winks ” in the desert, ii. 428
Fossil remains on the Amu-daria, ii. 200
French travellers at Merv, ii. 473
Frontier camp of Bokhariots, ii. 221
: — of Turkmenia, ii. 435
Fruit at Borokhudzir, 194
— Viemy, 277
— of Khiva, ii. 266
— Kuldja, 223
jpr— — Merv, ii. 477
G E N E R A
Fruit-trees at Manak, ii. 326
— ;— in Turkistan, 480
' —-- Turkmenia, ii. 440
-of Bokhara, ii. 82
;— on the Balkhan mountains, ii. 438
Fuel at Bokhara, ii. 142
— of Asia (Central), ii. 411
— the Kirghese, 352
Funerals among the Sarts, ii. 248
Fur trade at Khokand, 523
Furniture at Kakir, ii. 62
Furs at Bokhara, ii. 134
G a i e t i e s at Tashkend, 452
Gallop round walls of Bokhara, ii. 101
Gallows at Charjui, ii. 181
Khiva, ii. 308
Galtchas of Zarafshan province, 541
^^ffiCustoms of, 542
— Domestic life of, 542
— Government of, 542
— Tribes of, 543
Game birds of the. desert, ii. 422
— on the Amu, ii. 218
Games of the Kirghese, 556
Ganoid fishes of the Amu, ii. 245
Garden of Kush-beggi at Bokhara, ii. 81
— produce of Bokhara, ii. 142
Gardening at Bokhara, ii. 83
— by Cossacks,. 100
— in prisons, 668
Gardens of Asia. (Central) 480
— Bokhara, ii. 137, 165
■—H Khsivia,i i-i i.3 32352, 337
Khojend, 550
Kuldja, 224
-— — Merv, ii. 476
Petersburg prisons, 645, 648
G^tes of Bokhara, ii. 101
Tamerlane, 555
Tashkend, 424
Gazavat, Aryk and town of, ii-. 318
— Houses at, ii. 318
■*r- Inhabitants of, ii. 318
■$j Turkomans of, ii. 319
Gazelle captured at Uzun Kuyu, ii. 413
Gazelles at Porsti, ii. 426
Gazette in Tashkend, ii. 292
Gelun, Clerical functions of a, 217
— Duties of a, 216
Geluns among the Kalmuks, 215
— Tents of the, 216
Generosity of M. Ignatoff, 27, 32, 33
Geographical problems concerning Aral
Sea, ii. 402
— — Oxus, ii. 402
Geography of Kara-boghaz gulf, ii. 427
Geok Tepe,_ Russian capture of, ii. 465
/ IN D E X . 699
Geok Tepe, Russian losses at, ii. 465
Skobeleff at, ii. 464
Geological changes of Aral Sea, 385
||iljfeatures of Central Asia, ii. 170
— formation of Khivan khanate, ii. 265
— phenomena on the Oxus, ii. 206
—questions concerning the Scaphirhyn-
chus, ii. 244
Geology of Chimkent district, 422
Ferghana, 497
— — Kohistan, 537
Kyzyl-Kum steppe, 426
Thian Shan mountains, 155
— — Turkistan, 378
Zaisan neighbourhood, 91
German visitors at Tashkend, 452
Germans in Tashkend, 448
Gharm-sol in Ferghana, 496
Ghem, M., at Viemy, 274
Gill, Lieut., on Turkoman frontier, ii. 466
Gilyaks, Men and bear fights among,
ii. 211
Ginsburg, Dr., on Hebrew MSS., ii. 1I4
Glaciers of Thian Shan range, 155
Glaisher, Mr. "Instruments lent by, 8
Glukhovsky’s reconnaissance of old Oxus
bed, ii. 407
Gluttony of the Kirghese, 338
Goats of the Kirghese, 317
Gods of the Sibos, 212
Goitre at Khokand, 546
— Remedies for, 547
— Treatment of, 547
Goklans of Turkmenia, ii. 445
Gold in Turkistan, 381
— mining in Semipolatinsk, 103
Golden Horde, Russian conquest of, 401
“ Good luck ” in the desert, ii. 414
Gorge in the Oxus bed, ii. 393
Governors of Khivan provinces, ii. 314
Granary of Tashkend, 478
Grand Duke Michael’s reception of
Author, 11
Grapes of Khiva, ii. 267
Grave of Gen. von Kaufmann, 448
Graveyards of Bokhara, ii. 249
Great Balkhan mountains, ii. 437
'— Horde, Submission of, 288
Grodekoff on the Turkomans, ii. 444
Grotenhielm, Gen. von, Hospitality of,
ii. 232
— — — kindness to colporteurs, ii. 305
Guest and prisoner at Bokhara, ii. 140
— house at Karshi, ii. 44
Guides in the desert, Character of. ii. 397
Guinea-worm in Bokhara, ii. 146
Gunpowder manufacture in Bokhara,
ii. 141
: — Merv, ii 478