of the colonial letters, Mr. Anderson asks for an Imperial Commission
to consider the “after-the-war” problems, and in conversation with Mr.
Bonar Law I learn that such a Commission is to sit, and there is the
possibility of an Imperial Parliament being formed. This ought to be
taken up warmly by our people at home. I also discussed with Mr. Law
the prospects of emigration after the war. There is a great unrest in
the Army. Great numbers of men have one common opinion that they are
not going to return to the old dull grind in factory and office after
the war is over. They are going in for an open-air life, going to
Canada, going to Australia, or going to take up land at home in Great
Britain. The Canadians and Australians have served their home lands
well by telling the men at home what it is like in the far parts of
the Empire. Our men have a genuine admiration for the physique of our
Colonials. The fine bodies and good spirits of these men speak for
themselves, and then they are full of talk of a rich country, beautiful
Nature, wildness, big chances, prosperity. It is no wonder that the
Englishman wants to go there also when the war is over. There will
be a great readiness to go. The question is what facilities will be
given them to go? How much will it cost and how much land will they be
given, and what status will they have within the Empire? Mr. Law was
not inclined to give much answer to that, and he reminded me that we
wanted to get some more men back to the land in our own country. The
back-to-the-land movement here is, however, of little importance if we
are going to look upon the whole Empire as a British unity and feel
that a man on the land in Australia can be of more significance than a
man on the land in Essex.
I asked Mr. Bonar Law whether he thought that our manufacturers here
would be dismayed at the prospect of so many young men going to the
Colonies, would they not oppose facilities being given? Would they not
feel that it was necessary to keep the labour market overflowing with
labour in order to keep labour cheap? In any case, would they not feel
they needed to keep the men in England? The foundation of personal
wealth is a plenitude of labour. The more hands employed, the richer
the man at the top. Mr. Law did not think they were likely to raise
objections.
The overcrowding in the United Kingdom is much greater than in France
or Germany or Italy. India is also terribly over-crowded, but Canada
and Australia and South Africa are practically empty. The only nation
that occupies the correct amount of land proportional to its population
is China. Russia has double the territory of China, and something
like a third of the total population. And, thanks to cheap railway
fares, the Russian population spreads quietly and naturally. After the
war we must nationalise a steamship service for the use of British
subjects only, and make it possible to travel anywhere in the Empire
for a pound or so, paying for food according to a normal tariff. We
must give emigrants privileges in our own Colonies that they would not
obtain in the United States. We must set up big Imperial works, and
spend time and money in development. We must not relax our rule of the
seas, but go on building an ever better, ever more efficient Navy, and
not underman it. We must live even more on the sea than we have done
in the past, for the seas are our high roads, the connecting links of
Empire. We must get out of the foolish habit of thinking of Canada
and Australia and South Africa as terribly far away. It is a little
world, and there is scarcely a far-away in it. We have to give to our
working men, and to their children in the schools, the consciousness of
belonging to a big and glorious thing rather than the consciousness of
belonging to a little State that is almost played out. Let us think of
Russia with her bigness, her space, her consciousness of unity, and of
the large thing, and remember we have all the possibilities of health
and splendour that the Russians have if we will only face our problems
and do the things which are obvious to all except to those who fight in
the political arena for fighting’s sake.
To recapitulate:
(1) Russia has at least double the white population in her Empire
that we have in ours. Why should we not take steps to transplant from
over-crowded Britain to the less crowded parts of the Empire, and so
get better families?
(2) The Russian Empire is all on land, and is easily strung together by
railways, whereas our Empire is across seas. Fares within the Russian
Empire are cheap. Why should we not popularise our ocean travel and
have cheap fares on the seas?
(3) Russia, through certain natural advantages, keeps her race pure,
even on the outskirts of Empire. Why should we let our own people go
to the United States, and try to fill up our Colonies with aliens
who, in time of war, are ready to blow up Parliament buildings, powder
factories, plot assassinations, and what not?
(4) Russia is self-supporting in food, fuel, and clothing. Why should
not we be?
(5) The Duma is elected by the people not only of Russia in Europe,
but by the people of the whole Russian Empire. Why should not we have
Imperial representatives in the House of Commons--one man one vote for
all white British citizens.
(6) The Russian Empire is a large unity with a growing consciousness
of its own power. Why should not the British Empire realise similar
possibilities of unity and self-expression?
[Illustration: RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA.
MAP SHEWING TRAVELLER’S ROUTE.]
[Illustration]
Index
A
Abakum, Pass and Gorge of, 185, 186-7;
advertisements in, 187
Africa taken by Attila, 48
Agriculturists, emigration of, 138
Alabaster Mosque, Cairo, 40
Alai Tau Mountains, 90
Alakul, Lake, 149
Alani, the, 47
Alexander of Macedon, 56
Alexander the Great, 44
Alexandrovsky Mountains, 90
Altai, Central, 218 _et seq._
Altai, flora of, 229
Altai Mountains, the, 8
Altaiskaya, 220, 228, 229
Altin-Emel, Government aid to emigrants, 150;
the cross-roads for China, 173, 174
America--after the war, 265
Amu-Darya, 24
Anderson, Wm. C., an open letter to Lord Milner, 253-7
Anglo-Russian friendship, prospects of, 237 _et seq._
Antonovka, 94
Ants, ravages of, 129-130
Apples, the City of. (_See_ Verney)
Arabs and Semitic tribes, conquests of, 49
Arazan, dinner at, 184
Arbitration courts, 261
Arizona, 255
Artisans, emigration of, 140
Asbestos, the question of supply of, 246
Ascension Day, the Russian, 99
Asia, a former frontier of, 6;
the deserts of, 17, 18
Askhabad, the railway station, 22;
fall of, 65;
extension of Central Asian Railway to, 68
Astrakhan, fall of, 64
Attila, Huns of, 48;
conquests of, 48
Aulie Ata, captured by Russians, 64;
a mysterious city, 101;
a former Moslem shrine, 104;
the native orchestra, 106;
its cathedral, 113;
sheep as payment, 114;
frequency of earthquakes in, 114;
population of, 123
Australia, irrigation possibilities in, 255;
railway system of, 259;
military service compulsory in, 259, 261;
federation of, 261;
the Press of, 261
B
Bactrain labourers, 19
Baku, 10;
the bazaar, 11;
the harbour, 12
Balkan war: the St. James’s Conference, 213
Balkans, the, 18
Balkhash, Lake, 149, 203
Balta, 3
Baltic, islands of, conquered by Attila, 48
Barber, a Sart, 181
Barber-photographer, a, 97
Baskau, River, 189
Beaconsfield, Lord, and the “keys of India,” 237
Belukha, Mount, 228
Bibi Khanum, wife of Tamerlane the Great, 51
Bielovodsk, 122
Blagoveshtchensk, Siberians _versus_ Chinese, 171
Bobrovo, 229
Bokhara, Ancient and New, 27
Bokhara, Russian Protectorate of, 25, 66;
absence of hotels in, 27;
scenes in, 27;
a Mohammedan settlement in, 27;
houses, shops, and bazaars of, 28;
its silver coinage, 29;
the sacred stork of, 31;
Russia’s hold on, 32;
power of Mohammedanism in, 35 _et seq._;
Uzbeks in, 63;
the Central Asian Railway and, 69
Bokharese, the, 31-2;
and the battle of Irdzhar, 65
Bokharese delight, 29
Boxer insurrection, the, 171
Bozhe-Narimsky, 218, 220
_Brisbane_, the, a poem on launch of, 262-3
British Empire, the, necessity for consolidation of, 245-6;
white population in, 249, 269;
after-the-war problems, 249 _et seq._;
and the Russian Empire, 249-270;
expert development of resources necessary, 256;
a Tasmanian view of future problems of, 258-262
British Isles, the, after the war, 265
Buddhism, attempted introduction of, into Central Asia, 49
Bulgaria, alienation of, by Britain, 213
Burnaby’s “Ride to Khiva,” 239
C
Cabbage pies, 8
Cairo, 40
California, 255
Camel-breeding, Kirghiz women and, 219
Canada, comparison with Siberia, 208-9;
suggested after-the-war measures for, 254;
aliens in, 264
Carlyle, Thomas: “Heroes and Hero-Worship,” 37-9;
his pro-Russian proclivities, 239
Carpet-making in Transcaspia, 33
Caspian Sea, the, 10
Caucasians, author’s impression of, 5
Caucasus, the, future development of, 5
Central Asia, ethnology and, 44;
races of, 44 _et seq._;
Chinese attempt the introduction of Buddhism, 49
Central Asian Railway, building of, 66, 68, 69;
consecration of, 69
_Cervus canadensis asiaticus._ (_See_ Maral)
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, 251
_Charchafs_, 26, 28
Chardzhui, 25;
extension of Central Asian Railway to, 69
Cheesecakes, sweet, 8
Cherkask, 197
Chimkent, Russian capture of, 64;
the cinema at, 86;
the bazaar, 87;
population of, 123
China attacked by the Huns, 45-6;
the Great Wall of, 46;
Russians in, 70;
the Boxer insurrection, 171;
land proportional to population in, 268
Chinatown, New York, 26
Chinawomen and maral horn, 220
Chinese, altruistic, 176, 182;
a native circus, 176 _et seq._
Chinese Tartary, 8;
Mohammedans, 36, 164
Chingildinsky, 165
Chingiz Khan, 49-50
Christianity _versus_ Mohammedanism, 37 _et seq._
Chugachak, 182
Churek-cakes, 29
Cinema theatres, popularity of, 61, 86, 104, 159, 211
Colonial preference, question of, 245
Colonials, British admiration for, 267
“Commonwealth, Prospect of a,” 249 (note)
Confederation of the Round Table, the, 249
Constantinople, Germany and, 242;
Dostoieffsky on, 242;
and the Great War, 243
Constantinovka, 132
Cornucula, 95
Cotton goods, 206-7
Crooke, William, letter to author, 258-262
Curzon, Earl, 237
D
Danchenko, Namirovitch, on Russian conquest of India, 238
Dariel, Gorge of, 5;
the “Kremlin” of, 7
De Vesselitsky, M., 208
Deer-farming, 219 _et seq._
Dengil-Tepe taken by Kuropatkin, 65
Denmark, conquest of, by Attila, 48
_Derevnyi_, 122
Desert, the, railways in, 17;
wheatfields in, 19, 20;
antiquity of, 20;
its flora, 20
Dockers, Persian, 12
Dolinadalin, 3
Dostoieffsky, Fedor, 210;
on Russia’s demand for Constantinople, 242
Dukhobors in Canada, 264
Duncani, the, 36
_Dunkan_, a, 120
E
Earthquakes, frequency of, 57, 114, 156
Egypt, the shepherd dynasty of, 44
Electricity, a Caucasian contract for, 4
Emigrants, house-building by, 153-4;
a suggested export tax on, 259
Emigration, compulsory, 260
Emigration, Russian, 138 _et seq._;
inducements for, 141;
restrictions concerning, 142;
concessions on rail and steamer, 144 _et seq._
England and India, 241
England and Russia: the question of India, 241-4;
rivalry of empire, 244-6;
the trade treaty, 246-7;
the basis of friendship, 247-8
English, uneasiness of, at Russian progress, 66, 245
Ethnology and Central Asia, 44
Europe, after-the-war prospects of, 249 _et seq._
F
Factory hands, emigration of, 140
_Falanga_, hairy-legged, 116
Falconry, the Kirghiz knowledge of, 200
Falcons in Bokhara, 29
Fatalism, Mohammedanism and, 42
Ferghan, grants in aid of emigration to, 152
Flint-hunting in the Caucasus, 5, 6
Fortoug, 3
Froude as pro-Russian, 239
G
Gavrilovka, 175
Geok-Tepe, 21;
the railway station of, 21;
storming of, 68
Georgians, 4, 16
Germany, conquered by Attila, 48;
preparations for Great War in, 214;
an enemy of Anglo-Russian friendship, 239;
and Constantinople, 242;
white population in, 249
_Gimnasistki_, 214
Gladstone, Right Hon, W. E., a pro-Russian, 239
Goths, the, 47, 48
Great War, the, Germany’s ambitions, 67;
reception of news of declaration of war at Semipalatinsk, 213;
Germany’s preparations for, 214;
England’s unpreparedness for, 231
Gregoriefsky, 197
Grosnoe, 99
Grozdny, 10
Gusinaya Pristan, 216
H
Hassan, Sultan, Mosque of, 40
Havana cigars in Kopal, 182
Huns, the, 45, 46 _et seq._;
of Attila, 48;
Mongolian, 49
_Hydrotechnics_, Russian, 190, 193 _et seq._
I
Ikons, Russian, 10
Ili, River, 149, 164
Ili, valley of the, 162
Iliisk, 163
Imperial commission for after-the-war problems, an, 266
Ince-Agatch, 204
India and Russia, 237 _et seq._;
Namirovitch Danchenko on Russian conquest of, 238;
fear of Russian designs on, by British politicians, 241-2;
the overland route to, 243;
overcrowding in, 268
Indian frontier, the, 8
Indians, the, 44
Irdzhar, battle of, 65
Irrigation, artificial, in the desert, 20;
engineering students, 190, 193 _et seq._
Irtish River, 211 _et seq._
Issik-Kul, Lake, 149
J
Jaiman Terekti, 189
Jangiz-Agatch, 175
Jarasai, 160
Jarkent, a jurisdiction of Seven Rivers Province, 148;
rice-growing in, 149;
Government aid to emigrants to, 150
Jerakhof, Gorge of, 3
“Jericho, trumpets of,” 106
K
Kabul Sai, 74
Kalmeeks, the, 46, 221
Karabulak, 175
Karachok, 168
Karakirghiz, the, 63
Kara-Kum, desert of, 24
_Karakurt_, the, 116, 162
Karasbi, 160
Katun-Karagai, 220
Kaufmann, General von, 62
Kazan, fall of, 64
Kazanskaya Bogoroditsa, 132
Kazbek mountain and Prometheus, 7
_Khalati_, 19
_Khodoki_, 124, 136, 137, 142, 143, 144, 152
Khodzkent captured by Russians, 65
_Khosaïn Tereka_, 4
Khiva, 44;
Uzbeks in, 63;
under Russian protection, 66
Kief, University of, student life at, 125
Kinglake: his pro-Russian sympathies, 239
Kirghiz, the, 19, 45, 46, 74 _et seq._, 116, 221;
become Russian subjects, 65;
their system of _pecunia_, 114;
skill at falconry, 200;
relieved of military service, 208
Kirghiz Cossacks, the, 63-4;
women, description of, 83-4;
wedding, 168;
banquet, 191, 192;
women and camel-breeding, 219
Kizil Arvat, 68
Kok-sa River, 175
Kokand, 63;
Uzbeks of, defeated by Russians, 64
Kopal, population of, 123;
a jurisdiction of Seven Rivers Province, 148;
a walk to, 173;
author’s arrival at, 175;
a quaint clock at, 176;
visit to a Chinese circus, 176-181;
altruistic Chinamen, 182;
boundary of, 182;
facilities to sportsmen, 182
Koran, the, Carlyle and, 41
Kosh Agatch, 218
_Kosuli_, 116
Koumis, 80, 81, 86, 199
Krasnovodsk, 10, 15 _et seq._;
a Georgian host in, 16;
siege of, 65
Kruglenkoe, 174
Kuan-Kuza, 172, 173
Kugalinskaya, 174
Kugalinskaya Stanitsa, 174
Kurdai, 132
Kuropatkin, Colonel, 65
_Kursistki_, 214
L
Labour question in England, the, 268
Larse, a night at an inn, 4-5
Lava-Khedei, mosque of, 34
Law, Mr. Bonar, 251-3, 266, 267, 268
Lepers, 129
_Lepeshki_, 19, 29, 130
Lepsa, the, 203
Lepsinsk, 148, 186, 188, 192;
“removal” of, 193;
the information bureau, 194;
a Cossack settlement, 196
Lermontof’s “Demon”: scene of story of, 6
_Lessovaya zemlya_, the, 20
Liamin, M., 165-172
Lignitz, battle of, 50
Linbovinskaya, 132, 133
Lodz: its production of shoddy cotton, 206
“Lodzinsky,” definition of, 206
_Ludzon_, 225
M
Mahomet, birth of, 49
Malo-Krasnoyarsk, 218
Maly Narimsky, 220
Mankent, 92
Maral, the country of the, 218 _et seq._
Maral deer horns, 219 _et seq._
_Maralnik_, cost of construction of a, 223
Mare’s milk. (_See_ Koumis)
Marlowe on Tamerlane the Great, 52
Mecca, Mohammedan pilgrimages to, 36
Medvedka, 220;
a maral farm at, 222
Melba, Madame, 261
Merke, 117
Merv, fall of, 66;
Central Asian Railway extended to, 69;
annexation of, England’s attitude on, 237
Mesopotamia, a holy war in, 67
“Midsummer Night among the tent-dwellers,” 184 _et seq._
Milner, Lord, 253;
an open letter to, 253-7
Mogul. (_See_ Mongol)
Mohammedanism and Mohammedan cities, 35 _et seq._;
Mecca pilgrimages, 36;
Cairo, 40;
the Koran, 41;
fatalism and, 42;
characteristics of, 42-3;
birth of Mahomet, 49.
(_See also_ Bokhara)
Mongolia, Russians in, 70
Mongolian brick tea, 198;
Huns, 49
Mongols, the, 47
Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, 36
N
Narimsky Mountains, 218
Naturalisation, the question of, 260
Navy, the, necessity for increasing, 268
Nazimof, M., 126 _et seq._
Nevsky, Alexander, 63
Nikanorovitch, Mikhail, 223 _et seq._
Nikolaevski, 160
Nomadic tribes, 44 _et seq._
North Caucasian oilfields, 10
Northern Persia, Russians in, 70
Novy Troitsky, 122
O
Oil region of the Caucasus, 10
Orenburg falls into Russian hands, 65
Osmanli, the, 46
Ossetines, 4, 5, 6, 47
Oxus, the, 24;
a State service of steamers on, 69
P
Pamir, 8, 63;
grants to emigrants, 152
Passports, 15, 32
Pavlovska, Zoe, a pilgrimage to tomb of Bibi Khanum, 53-4
Paynim, the, 37
_Pecunia_, 114
Pekin, siege of, 50
Persia, roses in, 20 _et seq._;
its future, 243
Persian dockers, 12
Persians, the, 44, 45
Petrovsk, 10
Photographs and free shaves, 97
Pigs’ liver, black, 4
Pishpek, fall of, 64;
population of, 123;
a meeting with a Government topographer, 126;
climate of, 128;
skin disease in, 129;
a jurisdiction of the Seven Rivers Province, 148;
Government grants for emigrants, 150
Police, Russian, 177
Polovinka, 174
Porters, Russian, 11, 12
_Proletkas_, 27
Prometheus, legend of, 7
Przhevalsk, 148
R
Railway concessions and fares for emigrants, 144 _et seq._
Railways, Russian, 17, 18, 56, 68 _et seq._, 244, 250, 268;
scenes at stations, 19, 20;
British distrust of Trans-Persian Railway, 243
Rice-growing, 149
“Ride to Khiva,” Burnaby’s, 239
River charges for emigrants, 147
Romanovskaya, 203
Rome burned by the Goths, 48;
sacked by the Vandals, 48
Roses, Persian, 20 _et seq._
“Round Table,” the, 249 (note)
Russia, English entente with, 8;
railway systems of, 17, 18, 56, 68 _et seq._, 244, 250, 268;
conquered by Attila, 48;
rise of, 64 _et seq._;
colonisation of, 66 _et seq._, 70 _et seq._;
powers of chief of police in, 177;
mobilisation of, 234;
her possible designs on India, 237;
future of her empire, 244 _et seq._;
exports of, 244-5;
the question of a trade treaty, 247;
the white population in, 249, 269
Russia and England: the question of India, 241-4;
rivalry of Empire, 244-6;
the trade treaty, 246-7;
the basis of friendship, 247-8
Russia and India, and prospects of Anglo-Russian friendship, 237
_et seq._
Russian card games, 195;
colonies: provinces open to colonisation, 138;
information to intending colonists, 138;
colonisation, 155;
exports: the Tariff Reform view of, 245
Russian Central Asia, capital of, 57 _et seq._;
commercial travellers in, 123-4
Russian Empire, the, and the British Empire, 249-70
Russian Turkestan, Uzbeks in, 63
S
St. James’s Conference, the, 213
Salt steppes, the, 10, 15, 17
Samarkand, the grave of Timour, 44;
conquest of, 50;
an impressionist poem on, 53;
a Mohammedan centre, 55;
foundation of, 56;
Russian occupation of, 65;
and the Central Asian Railway, 69;
Government inducements to emigrants, 152
San Francisco, a Chinese underground city in, 171
Sandbanks, 18
Saracens, the, 47
Sarajevo tragedy, the, 212
Sarts, the, 26;
in Samarkand, 56;
natives of Tashkent, 59-60;
their orchestra: music from 10-ft. horns, 106
Scandinavia, Attila’s conquest of, 48
Scythia, 45
Semipalatinsk, 207;
Dostoieffsky in exile at, 210;
shops of, 210-211;
and the Sarajevo tragedy, 212-213
Semiretchenskaya Oblast. (_See_ Seven Rivers Land)
Semi-retchie, Northern, plain of, 186
Semitic tribes, with Arabs, conquer Persia, etc., 49
Serbia and the assassination of the Archduke of Austria, 212-213
Sergiopol, population of, 123;
shops of, 205;
a commercial traveller’s experiences in, 205-6
Seven Rivers Land, Russian penetration and occupation of, 64, 116,
148;
fauna of, 116;
its troika, 117 _et seq._;
climate of, 149;
Government grants to emigrants, 141,150;
taxes, 151;
military service, 151;
timber, 151;
cinema shows in, 159;
the Pass and Gorge of Abakum, 185, 186-7
Shakespeare’s burlesque on Tamerlane the Great, 52
_Shashleek_, 105
Shaving extraordinary, 181-2
Sheep as payment for goods purchased, 114
Siberia, value of land in, 141;
an old-established Russian colony, 207;
compared with Canada, 208-9;
population of, 209
Sirdaria, deserts of, 8;
author at, 74;
a Kirghiz settlement at, 75 _et seq._;
Government grants to emigrants, 152
Skobelef, General, reduces Geok-Tepe, 21;
in Transcaspia, 65
_Skobelef_, the, 13
South Africa, irrigation possibilities in, 255
Southern Siberia, steppes of, 8
Spider, black, 116, 162
_Stantsi_, 122
Steamship service, a national, 268
Stewart, Mr., “Boss of the Terek,” 4
Storks in Bokhara, 31
Strikes in war time, 261
Suffragettes, Russian opinion of, 195
T
Table Mountain, 3
Tadzhiks, the, 44
Talass, River, 113, 115
Tamara, 6
Tamara, Queen, castle of, 6
Tamerlane the Great, his conquests for Mohammedanism, 50;
Emperor of Asia, 51, 63;
Marlowe on, 52;
conquest of India and Eastern Russia, 52
Tariff reform and Russian exports, 245
Tartars, enemies to Christians, 37;
rising of the, 49
Tashkent, 57 _et seq._;
water-supply of, 57-8;
muezzin towers of, 59;
an exiled Grand Duke at, 60;
schools, 60-1;
cinema shows at, 61;
Russian atmosphere of, 61-2;
Kaufmann Square, 62;
taken by Russians, 64
Tea, Russian and Indian, 158
Tea dust, solidified, 198
Tekintsi, the, headgear of, 19;
a great fortress of, 21
Terek, River, 3
Terek, the “Boss” of, 4
Thian Shan Mountains, 162
Timour the Lame. (_See_ Tamerlane the Great)
Tokmak, fall of, 64
Tolstoy, 264
Transcaspia becomes a Russian province, 65
Trans-Ilian Alai Tau Mountains, 90
Trans-Persian Railway, the, 243
Tribes, mediæval history of, 44 _et seq._
Triple Entente, the, 8
_Troika_, the Russian, 117 _et seq._
Tsaritsinskaya, 175
Tulovka, 220
Turkestan, cosmopolitan, 22;
four great cities of, 44;
value of land in, 141;
restrictions as to emigration, 142;
demand for labour in, 152;
grants in aid, 152
Turkish tribes, the chief, 46
Turkomans, dress of, 19;
one of the chief Turkish tribes, 46
Turks, the, 46
U
United Kingdom, the, overcrowding in, 268
United States, the, mixed races in, 249, 264;
loss of British citizens to, 263 _et seq._
Ust-Kamennygorsk, 214
Uzbeks, the, 46;
in Bokhara, Khiva, and Russian Turkestan, 63
V
Valens, Emperor, 47
Vandals, the, 48
_Vatrushki_, 8
Verney, fall of, 64;
population of, 123;
a jurisdiction of the Seven Rivers Province, 148;
rice-growing at, 149;
Government grants, 150;
capital of Seven Rivers, 156;
its apples, 156;
the High School, 157;
German sausages in, 158;
newspaper record of cinema shows, 158-9
Visokoe, 99
Vladikavkaz, the military road of, 2, 4
Vodka in Russian Central Asia, 86
Vsevolodovitch Yaroslaf, 63
W
Wages boards, 261
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 261
Wheatfields in the desert, 19, 20
_Wimmera_, the, 261
Wolves in Russian Central Asia, 87
Y
Yakuts, the, 46
Yaroslaf Vsevolodovitch, 63
Yellow Peril, the, 170
Z
Zaalaisk, Government grants to emigrants, 152
_Zollverein_, a, Chamberlain and, 251
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] Connected by rail with Tashkent since my tramp across the country.
[B] As the Government never exercised a monopoly of the sale of vodka
in Russian Central Asia the Tsar’s edict did not apply to these
regions. However, I believe the sale of intoxicating liquor has been
greatly restricted by the local authorities.
[C] _Pecus_ = a head of cattle, a beast of the field.
[D] This differentiation in hue is in case the persons holding the
certificates should be illiterate.
[E] Counting the rouble as worth 1s. 6d. At the moment of writing it is
worth rather less than 1s. 4d., but it should improve somewhat.
[F] See “The Round Table,” a review of the interests of the Empire, and
“The Prospect of a Commonwealth,” an extraordinary after-the-war volume.
[G] American value, i.e. £1,000,000,000.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Illustrations have been moved to the nearest paragraph breaks. In some
cases, these breaks are on different pages. The List of
Illustrations has been updated to reflect these changes.
In the Index, it appears that two entries have been inadvertently
combined into one: Russian card games. The text has been retained as
printed.