Cameron, Lieutenant, 366
Chandu, city of, described, 25
Chihuahua, 67
Chinese, curious superstition of the, 43
Coleridge, quoted, 31
Comanche Indians, the, story of, 56, 59
Cossack officer, a, adventure of, 191
D
D’Ablaing, Baron, 247
Darma Tsyren, Mr. Atkinson’s visit to, 215
Demons’ Mountain, the, 92
“Devil-dancing,” 45
Diamond-sparrow, the, 300, 301
Doré, African town of, 142
Durango, Mexican town of, 59
E
Ekaterineburg, 164
Elephant-hunting, 381, 382
El Gallo, sport of, described, 66
Eremil, river, 223
Errington, Port, 239
Escamilla, story of, 60–63
F
Flinders, Lieutenant, 293
Fogha, valley of, 138
Frost-bitten, 338–340
Fulbi, the, 101
G
Ghat, oasis of, 95
Ghûls, the, 19
Glenelg, 322
Gobi, the Great Desert of, 17, 18, 212–214
Golden Lake, the, 195
Gondokoro, 247, 374, 375
Grant, Captain, 241, 368, 377
H
Heiligenkreuz, missionary settlement of, 246
Heughlin, Dr., 249
Hommaire de Hell, Madame, quoted, 19
I
Ivory-dealers, the African, 255
J
Jana-Daria, desert of, 349
Jornada del Muerto, the, 69
K
Kaiping-fu, described, 25
Kalenderhana, 349
Kalmucks, the, manners and customs of, 198, 199
Kamrasi, the chief of Unyoro, 388, 389, 398
Kanó, town of, 100
Kara-Kalpaks, the, 263
Karakorum Mountains, the, 197
Karuma Falls, the, 386
Kasala, 260, 335, 336, 343, 364
Katchiba, African chief, 383
Katounaia, the, 200
Katséna, town of, 100
Kauffmann, General, 280
Khala-Ata, fortress of, 274
Khan of Khiva, palace of, 283; description of, 285, 357–359
Khartûm, town of, 234, 370, 402
Khiva, described, 282, 283, 285, 287, 355, 356, 360
Khivans, the, account of, 281
Kibitka, a, described, 179, 180, 264, 344, 346
Kirghiz chief, a, description of, 182, 183
Kirghiz tribes, the, habits of, 178–182, 264–267
Kolyvan Lake, 169
Kongo, the, 367
Kublai Khan, Marco Polo’s visit to the court of, 25
Kúkáwa, in Bornú, 106
Kyzil-Kum, desert of, 261, 263
L
Latookas, tribe of the, 379–381
Lepson, river, 225
Lindsay, Hon. Robert, quoted, 41
Livingstone, Dr., 364, 365
Lop, or Lob, city of, 17
Luta N’zige, the, 377
M
MacGahan, Mr. J. A., with the Russian army in Khiva, 260–292
Maduwári, 111
Magango, 395
Mal Pais, the, description of, 55
Mapimi, 67
Marco Polo, travels of, in Central Asia, 1–48
Másená, 124
Mexicans, the, character of, 49; sports of, 59
Mexico, geographical characteristics of, 50, 51
Mongols, the, habits of, 20–22
Morzouk, 91
Muna Aim, story of, 267, 268
Múniyo, 129
Murchison Falls, the, 396
N
Nicholas, the Grand-Duke, 280
Niger, the, description of, 139; basin of, 367
Nile, the, scenery of, 235, 236, 371, 400, 401; basin of, 367
Nô, Lake, 243, 244
Nor-Zaisan, Lake, 176
Nuehr tribe, the, 372
O
Oakover, river, 315, 320
Obbo, 383
Oogentel, 353
Orenburg, 335
Overweg, Mr., joins Dr. Barth, 112; death of, 128
P
Pamir, table-land of, described, 16
Pardalote, the, 300, 301
Peking (anc. Cambaluc), 32
Perovsky, Fort, 261
Petro-Alexandrovsky, 361, 362
Phayre, Sir A., quoted, 54
Pike’s Peak, 88
Porcupine-grass, 299
Palque, Mexican drink of, described, 51
Q
Queretaro, 51
R
Ramusio, quoted, 9
Rancho, a Mexican, described, 66
Reg, Lake, 249
Richardson, Mr. James, African traveller, death of, 106
Rio Colorado, the, 78
Rocky Mountains, in the, 74, 75
Ruxton, Mr. George F., travels in Mexico, 49–89
S
Sagárti, the, 111
Samara, Russian town of, 331
Santa Fé, 73
Say, town of, 139
Sesamum, the, cultivation of, 385
Shamo, country of, 114
Shillooks, the, character of, 242–244, 371
Shir, the, African tribe of, 373
Shooa, described, 384, 385, 399
Snake Indians, the, 85
Snow-storm in Arkansas, 81
Sobat, the, 371
Somerset, the, 386, 391
Sourays, the, 111
Speke, Captain, travels of, 368, 369, 377
Stanley, Mr. H. M., 368
Steudner, Dr., death of, 250
Syr-Daria, the, 260, 345
T
Tartars, the, described by Marco Polo, 20–25
Tasáwa, 100
Tchad, Lake, 110, 120
Terekli, 340
Thian-Shan, the, 325
Tibet, description of, 40–43
Timbuktu, described, 150
Tinné, Alexina, travels of, in the Soudan, 230–259
Tiska, Mount, 96
Tollogo, 378
Towaregs, the, 92, 95
Traveller’s Tree, the, 400
Turkistan, boundaries and divisions of, 325, 326
U
Uafour river, 389
Unyoro, country of, 387, 388
U’shek, 129
Uzbegs, the, customs of, 288; a house of, 289, 290; dance of, 290, 291
V
Vacovia, 394
Valverde, American camp at, 70
Venice, rivalry of, with Genoa, 12
Victoria Nyanza, the, 369
Victoria White Nile, the, 386, 395
Volga, the, sleighing on, 330
W
Wakkala, 379
Warburton, Colonel Egerton explores West Australia, 293–324
White Nile, the, 244
Wood, Captain John, quoted, 16
Wordsworth, quoted, 60
Y
Yule, Colonel, quoted, 1, 2, 17
Yuz-Kudak, valley of, 271
Z
Zacatero, 68
Zambési, the, 367
Zindu, 131
NOTES
{3} The roc, a gigantic bird, which figures in the Eastern fable of
Sinbad the Sailor.
{12} A rich, quaint, walled-up doorway, in semi-Monastic, semi-Byzantine
style, still extant in the Corte del Sabbrin, or Corta Sabbonicia, is
nearly all that remains of the house of Messer Marco Palo.
{17} A summary of the Russian explorations of the Pamir, by Sievertzof,
has been published in Kettler’s “Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche
Geographie.”
{22} _Cuir-bouilli_, leather softened by boiling, during which process
it took any form or impression required, and afterwards hardened.
{35} Probably _malachite_, or carbonate of copper.
{41} The Hon. Robert Lindsay writes:—“At night each man lights a fire at
his post, and furnishes himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo,
one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it
contains being rarefied by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as
a musket.”—“Lives of the Lindsays,” iii. 191.
{89} G. F. Ruxton, “Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.”
London, 1861.
{156} Heinrich Barth, “Travels and Discoveries in North and Central
Africa.” Second edition. London, 1857.
{159} The scenery of the Tchossowaia valley is warmly praised by Sir
Roderick Murchison. “A more picturesque river-gorge,” he says, “was
certainly never examined by geologists. Between the hamlet of Kinist and
Ust-Koiva we passed through scenes even surpassing in beauty those higher
up the stream, and to which it would require the pencil of a professed
artist to do justice. The river runs in a limestone gorge, in which are
cliffs of every variety of form, occasionally exposing large caverns
along their vertical faces, with trees and flowers grouped about in the
clefts—rocks varying in colour from black to white.”—“Geology of the
Oural,” p. 188.
{166} A four-wheeled waggon, made without either nail, bolt, or springs.
{211} Mrs. Somerville, “Physical Geography,” i. 105.
{212} Humboldt, “Ansichten der Natur,” i. 8.
{228} T. W. Atkinson, “Oriental and Western Siberia.” London, 1858.
{249} It is, in reality, nothing more than a curve of the river, which
forms an island of about half a mile in length, called Meschra-el-Reg.
{259} Augustus Petermann, _Mittheilungen_; Dr. Heughlin, “Reise in das
Gobiet, des Weissen Nil, etc.”
{302} These consist of a few links of chain, with a swivel in the
middle, and a steel strap with a buckle at either end. They are fastened
round the animal’s fore-legs just above the hoof, so as to confine the
feet together, and render straying difficult.
{324} Colonel Egerton Warburton, C.M.G., “Journey across the Western
Interior of Australia,” with Introduction, etc., by C. H. Eden. Edited
by H. W. Bates. London, 1875.
{359} During the viceroyalty of Lord Northbrook.
{364} “A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia.” By
Fred Burnaby, Captain, Royal Horse Guards. Second edition. London,
1876.
{369} Our gallant explorer was not knighted until 1866, but throughout
this chapter we shall use the title by which he is so well and so
honourably known.
{404} Sir Samuel White Baker, “The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the
Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources.” London, 1866.