INDEX
Reading edition
Aba Bakr, 268
Abdalis, 242
Abu Ali bin Sina (Avicenna), 318
Abu Nasr, 260
Achmet, 22, 24, 27, 40-41, 46
Afghanistan, Amir of: China and, 272;
Wakhan awarded to, 294
Afghanistan, trade with, 247
Afghans in Kashgar, 57
Afrasiab, Mt., 156
Agha Khan, the, 155, 157, 177
Agriculture in Chinese Turkestan, 300-307
Agri Su, shrine, 181
Ahmad Khan, Amir, 272
Akhois, 114-17, 125, 146, 149
Ak Langar, 203, 220
Ak Masjid taken, 276, 282
Aksakals, 105, 273;
of Guma, 197-8;
of Sarikol, 153, 157
Aksu, 240, 266, 280, 292, 295
Ak Taulin, 269, 270
Ak-Yul-luk ceremony, 312
Alai range, 31
Ali Aralan, 93-5, 261
Almaligh, 265
Alti Shahr, 273
Ambans, Chinese, 126, 194, 198, 242, 279
Amin-ul-Muminin, 284
Amundsen, Captain, 4
Amursana, 271
Andijan, 21, 245, 272, 274, 299, 301
Apak, Hazrat, 68-70, 270-71, 312
Arabs, conquests by, 256-8
Architecture of Chinese Turkestan, 84-5
Argon, 117, 125
Arslan Khans, 259
Aryans of Sarikol, 131, 153, 155, 157-60, 308
Atalik Ghazi, 279
Ata-ul-Vali, Shaykh, 181
Austrian prisoners, 19
Avicenna, 318
Badakshan, 145, 247, 272, 278
Badakshani horses, 28, 53, 114, 176-177, 194, 227-8, 247
Badrudin, Khan Sahib, 209-10, 212, 216-20
Bag-mouth rat, 88
Baigu, game of, 150-51, 165
Baths, Russian, 13-14
Beg Kuli Beg, 292
Begs, 25, 27, 92, 126-7, 139, 164-5;
of Tashmalik, 107, 109;
official powers of, 243-5
Bergen, 4-5
Besitun, Mt., 156
Bibi Anna, shrine of, 92-3
Bielka, 54, 230
Birds of Chinese Turkestan, 87-8, 161, 182, 221
Bishbaligh, 259
Black Mountaineers, 269
Bohlin, Mr., 51, 55, 65, 66, 72, 87, 88, 105, 171, 173
Bokhara, 269, 274, 279, 282-3
“Braiding of the hair” ceremony, 274, 313-14
Bridge of Gez River, 110-11
Britain and Chinese Turkestan, 293-4, 298;
Yakub Beg and, 285-290
Brownie, 54, 230
Buchanan, Lady Georgina, 10
Buddhism, 94, 153, 217-19, 241, 310;
in China, 252-3
Buddhist ruins, 84-5, 217-19
Buffer states, Chinese, 298
Bulunkul, Lake, 111, 165
Buzurg Khan, 277, 279
Camels, 15, 28, 79, 109, 112, 169, 302-3
Caravans, 25, 28, 89, 176
Carpets, 82, 116, 146-7, 213
Carts, native, 26, 176
Chachbagh ceremony, 313-14
Chagatai, 265, 266
Chang Kien, 252
Chapman, Captain, 287
Chengiz Khan, 263-5
Chernaieff, General, 277
Chightam, 280-81
Childbirth ceremonies, 314-15
Children, 315-16
China: buffer states of, 298;
travel in, 102
Chinese Turkestan and, 55, 97, 186, 242-5;
during Revolution, 294-9;
struggle for suzerainty, 67, 249-53, 255-6, 257-8, 271-4;
Yakub Beg and, 70-71, 277-81, 290-93
Chinese: administration, 55, 97, 186, 242-5;
authorities, 37, 186, 242-5;
banquets, 72-3, 76-8, 199;
burial customs, 71-72;
cemetery, 70-72;
farmers, 301-2;
finger-nails, 73,96-7, 99;
foot-mutilation, 74-5;
forced labour, 55, 306;
games, 78;
habits unhealthy, 96-7, 99;
hashish prohibited by, 172;
jade, 215-17;
kindness to animals, 100-101;
lying, 100;
marriage, 65, 99-100;
missionaries persecuted by, 52;
soldiers, 74, 95-6;
travellers, 28;
veneration for age, 76
Chinese Turkestan: administration, 55, 97, 186, 242-5;
agriculture, 300-307;
art, 82-4;
boundaries, 235-6;
climate, 56, 239-40;
deserts, 236-8;
flora, 87, 128, 149-50, 169, 210;
halting-places, 35;
hospitality, 102;
justice, 245;
loess formation, 36, 56-7, 86, 91;
marriage, 189;
population, 240-42, 308-10;
religions, 94, 153, 217-19, 241-2, 310;
rivers, 258-9;
road-making, 228;
taxes, 243-4, 306;
trade, 245-7, 289
history of: Chinese rule, 67, 70-71, 249-53, 255-6, 257-8, 271-4, 277-81, 290-93, 294-9;
Huns and Yue-chi, 249, 252-3;
Juan Juan, 254;
Western Turks, 254-5;
Arabs and Tibetans, 255-6, 257-8;
Uighurs, 258-9;
Turks, 260-62;
Chengiz Khan, Timur, Tamerlane, 263-8;
Chagatai Khans, 267-9;
Zungars, 270-71;
Khojas, 269, 270, 272-274, 278;
Yakub Beg, 70-71, 276-81, 290-4;
Britain and Russia, 275-6, 282-6, 293-4, 299
Chini Bagh, 39-40, 81
Chitral occupied, 293
Christian tribes, 263-4
Christianity in Chinese Turkestan, 190;
Nestorian, 94, 256, 323
Circumcision, 315-16
Cobbold, Captain, 134
Consulate premises, 39-40, 81, 170-71
Coronation Chapel, Moscow, 11
Corvée system, 55, 306
Cossacks in Kashgar, 46, 52, 79-80, 81, 297-8;
in Pamirs, 133, 135, 140, 141-3;
Kirghiz descended from, 240
Croquet, 46
Czaplicka, Miss, 120
Dalai Lama, 270
Dalgleish, 223
Dancing, 323
Daoud Akhun, 41, 50, 160, 165, 168, 171, 176
Deasy, Captain, 40, 77
Death ceremonies, 316-17
Deserts, 175, 236-8
Devanchi Pass, 291
Divorce in Chinese Turkestan, 65, 212
Dixon, E. W., 326
Dogs, pariah, 101
Donkeys, Kashgari, 89, 101, 176, 302
Dughlat tribe, 265, 267-8
Dulanis, 223, 225, 241, 281, 323
Dumba, 26, 44
Dunmore, Lord, 111, 143, 230
Eagles, hunting with, 182, 222
Education in Kashgar, 316
Elburz Range, 136
Embroidery, 83
English Hospital in Petrograd, 10
Etherton, Lieutenant, 184
Evil eye, charms against, 319
Fa-hien, 217, 219, 253
Falconer of the Mehtar of Chitral, 177
Falconry, 177-8
Ferhad, 156
Finger-nails, Chinese, 73, 96-7, 99
Finland, 8-9
Fish, poisonous, 43;
Kirghiz fishing, 152-3
Flax cultivation, 172-3
Flora:
of Chinese Turkestan, 87, 128, 149-50, 169, 210;
of Pamirs, 145-6
Forsyth mission, 287-9
“Four Garrisons,” 255-6
Freshfield, Mr. Douglas, 146
Games:
Chinese, 78;
Kashgari, 323;
Kirghiz, 122, 150-51, 165
German prisoners, 19
Gez River, 107-11, 166
Gilgit occupied, 293
Goat game, 122, 150-51, 165
Gobi, the, 175, 236, 258, 290
Goez, Benedict, 270
Goitre:
in Khotan, 212;
in Yarkand, 184-5, 192
Gordon, Sir Thomas, 155, 287, 289
Governor of Kashgar, lunch given by, 72-6;
of Tashkurghan, 155;
of Yangi Shahr, 97, 99
Great Karakul Lake, 130, 132, 134, 327-8
Grenard, 242, 261, 317
Grombohevsky, Captain, 293
Guchluk, 262, 264
Gul Bagh, 71
Guma, 197-9
Gur Khan, 261, 262
Haidar, Mirza, 240, 266 (note), 268
Hakim Khan Torah, 292
Haldan Bokosha, Khan, 270
Han dynasty, 249-50
Hasan Boghra Khan, 260-61
Hasan, Sayyid Khoja, 269
Hashish, 172, 185
Hawks, 87-8;
white, 177-8
Haydon, Mr., 141
Hayward, 287
Hazrat Apak, 68-70, 93, 270-71, 312
Hemp, 246
Hindus:
in Kargalik, 194;
in Yarkand, 183, 185, 186
Hiong-Nu tribe, 249, 254
Hiuen Tsiang, 129, 196, 197, 207, 217, 237, 251, 254
Hoa tribe, 254
Höegberg, Dr., 52, 184, 190;
Mrs., 189, 190
Holdich, Sir Thomas, 129
Horsemanship:
Cossack, 79-80;
Kashgari, 80, 99
Horses:
Badakshani, 28, 53, 114, 176-7, 194, 227-8, 247;
Kalmuck, 302;
treatment of, 151-2
Hospidset Hotel, 4
Howorth, Sir Henry, 270
Hsien Yin or Sub-Governor, 242
Hsin-Chiang, Chinese name for Chinese Turkestan, 235, 271
Humayun, 112, 175
Huns, 249-50, 252, 254;
White, 253-4
Id festival, 229
Iftikhar Ahmad, Khan Sahib, 105, 158, 168, 175, 196, 224
Ilak Khans, 258, 261
Ilohi, native name for Khotan, 212
Ili, 265, 270, 271, 272, 280, 294
Ili Tartar General, 243
India:
trade with, 246;
Yue-chi invade, 249, 252
Indian Empire and Yakub Beg, 286-290
Indians in Chinese Turkestan, 183, 185, 186, 194
Insects of Turkestan, 88-9, 107, 171
Intermarriage, results of, 313
Irkeshtam, 33, 293
Isa Haji, 303-7
Isan Bughs, 265
Ishan Khan Khoja, 273
Islam:
rise of, 256, 260-61, 262;
supplants Buddhism, 266, 269, 293, 310
Issak Boulak, 161
Jade of Khotan, 215-17, 270
Jafar Bai, 26-7, 30, 40-41, 43, 50, 77, 95, 108, 112, 117-18, 152, 160, 165, 173, 175, 183, 195, 204, 222, 228
Jahangir, 267, 272
Jam-i-Taghai-Agri-Su, 181
Johnson, Mr., 286
Juan Juan, 254
Justice in Chinese Turkestan, 245
Justinian, Emperor, 214
Kalmuck tribe, 270;
horses of, 302
Kamar-u-Din, 267
Kanishka, 252
Kan Ying, 251
Kaptar Mazzar, 205-7
Karakash River, 209
Kara Khitai dynasty, 261, 262
Kara Koram, 236, 246
Karakoram, capital of Uighurs, 259
Karakul Lake, Great, 130, 132, 134, 327-8;
Little, 164
Karashahr, 241, 255, 280, 292;
horses, 302
Kara Taulin, 269
Kargalik, 193-4, 288
Karungi, 7-9
Kashgar:
agriculture, 170, 172, 301-2, 303-7;
bazar, 57-63;
birds, 87-8;
British mission at, 288-9;
Buddhist ruins, 84-85;
cemetery, 68-9;
childbirth, 314-15;
Chinese Republic, disturbances in, 295-8;
climate, 56, 230-31, 239-40;
crops, 170, 172, 301-2;
death ceremonies, 316-17;
donkeys, 89, 101, 302;
education, 316;
farmers, 303-7;
food available in, 43-4;
fruit, 170, 179-80, 301;
handicrafts, 82-4;
insects, 88-9, 107, 171;
laundry difficulties in, 45-6;
marriage and divorce, 64-5, 310-13;
medical science in, 317-21;
millers, 90;
Oasis, 37, 54-5, 240, 300-302;
population, 245-246;
prices, 44-5;
revenue, 244;
Russian colony in, 46-51, 79-84, 105;
sandstorms, 56, 239-40;
shrines, 92-5, 320;
sunsets, 91-2, 231;
Swedish missionaries, 37, 44, 51-3;
trade, 245;
trees, 86-7;
wall, 67-8;
winter in, 280-81
history of:
Huns drive Yue-chi from, 249;
Pan Chao conquers, 66-7, 250-51;
Yue-chi regain, 252, 253;
Buddhism reaches, 253;
China recovers, 255;
one of “Four Garrisons,” 255, 257;
Christianity and Zoroastrianism in, 256;
Arab raids reach, 257;
Ali Arslan defeated, 94, 261;
Turkish rule, 261;
Sadi visits, 262;
Marco Polo in, 265;
Timur’s capital, 266;
under Dughlat Amirs, 267-8;
Khojas established in, 269;
Hazrat Apak rules, 68, 270-71;
Chinese masters of, 271-3;
attempts of Khojas to regain, 272, 273-4, 277;
Yakub Beg rules, 277-8, 279-91;
Russian designs on, 283, 285;
British mission in, 287-90;
Chinese overthrow Yakub Beg, 97, 290-92;
Revolutionary disturbances in, 295-8
Kashgari:
costumes, 29, 58-9, 83, 193;
cruelty to animals, 100-101;
dirtiness, 44;
farmers, 303-7;
games, 323;
health, 99, 173;
horsemanship, 80, 99;
lying, 100;
medical mission and, 52-53;
music, 63-4, 323;
peasants, 60;
pleasure expeditions, 92, 95;
religious observances, 68-9, 92, 95, 314-315;
superstitions, 69, 318-21;
women, 58-61, 64-5, 83, 92-3, 122, 310-15;
workmen, 29, 31, 58
Kashmir, 269;
Maharaja of, 293
Kasia Mountains, 236
Katta Dawan, 128-31, 133, 327
Katta Tura, 273
Kaufmann, General, 18, 285
Kaufmann, Mt., 134
Kaulbars, Baron, 284
Kazis, 243, 245
Keen Lung, Emperor, 271
Keraits, 263
Khanates of the Sir Darya, 275, 283, 299
Khargush Pamir, 134-9
Khiva, 275
Khojas, 269, 270-71, 272-3, 274, 277-8, 280
Khokand, 20-21;
submits to China, 272, 273;
Russian advance on, 276, 277, 279;
Russian rule established, 282, 283, 299;
revolt, 283, 285
Khotan:
ancient cities of, 217-19;
carpets, 82, 116, 146-7, 213;
history, 94, 253, 255, 261, 279, 286, 292;
jade, 215-17;
oasis, 323;
population, 240, 246;
products, 213-17, 246;
women, 211-12
journey to:
the caravan, 175-8;
Yangi Hissar, 178, 180;
Yarkand, 182-90;
Posgam, 192-3;
crossing the desert, 195-7, 201-208;
arrival, 209-11;
Merket, 221-5;
return to Kashgar, 225-9
Khudadad, Amir, 268
Khudayar Khan, 276, 277
Kirghiz, 240-41, 308;
akhois, 30, 114-17, 125, 146, 149;
character and customs, 113-14, 118, 123-5, 164-5, 331;
features, 57, 113;
fishing, 152-3;
goat game, 122, 150-51, 165;
headgear, 25, 118, 133, 148;
hunter, 330-31;
Karakoram captured by, 259;
marriages, 119-22, 323;
ponies, 302;
religion and superstition, 125, 163;
submit to China, 272;
women, 23, 114, 118-22, 133
Kizil Art, 236
Kizil Su River, 35, 55, 238
Korla, 292
Koumiss, 122
Kucha, 280, 292
Kuen-lun range, 205, 236
Kuli, 165
Kulja, 271, 293
Kungur, Mt., 40, 164
Kuntigmas, 166
Kuropatkin, 291
Kutass riding, 162-4, 166-8
Kutayba ibn Muslim, 257
Kvass, 9
Labour, forced, 55, 306
Ladak, 268, 269, 286
Lalmoi marsh, 238
Lapis lazuli, 247
Leh route to India, 246
Little, Mrs. Archibald, 75
Littledale, Mrs. St. George, 209
Little Lake Karakul, 164
Liu-Kin-tang, 97-8
Loess formations, 36, 56-7, 86, 91
Macartney, Lady, 38-39, 45, 54
Macartney, Sir George, 3, 37, 52, 78, 102, 231, 298
Makhdum-i-Azam, 269
Manichaeism, 259
Maralbashi, 238, 239
Marmots, 136, 144
Marriage:
Chinese, 65, 189;
Kashgar, 64-5, 310-13;
Khotan, 212;
Kirghiz, 119-22, 323
Master of the Horse, 176-7
Mazzars, 92-5, 205-7
Medical missionaries attacked, 51-2
Medicine in Kashgar, system of, 317-21
Melons, 179-80
Merket, 221-5, 241
Meshed, 51, 325
Mestchersky, Prince, 46, 48;
Princess, 46, 48, 75, 79, 80
Metal-work, 83
Millers, 90
Ming Bashis, 25, 141, 144-5, 243
Miniol, 37, 170
Mithradates II., 249-50
Moghulistan, 235, 265, 267
Mohamed of Khwarazm (Khiva), 262
Mongols:
of Karashahr, 241;
races of, in Chinese Turkestan, 308;
rise of, 263-5;
Tombs of the, 95
Mon Wang, 249
Moscow, 11
Moslems deported, 271, 272, 273;
rebellions of, 280
Mountain sickness, 138, 149, 168
Muezzins, 91
Mullas, 52, 58, 61, 173
Murghab River, 130, 141
Mussalman Kuli, 276, 277
Muztagh Ata, 40, 111, 148, 160, 163, 164, 166, 180, 231
Nadir, the huntsman, 108, 117, 119, 131-2;
his sheep taken by wolves, 124-5;
stalking ovis poli, 133, 135, 140-41, 328-30;
at home in Tashkurghan, 153, 156-7
Naiman tribe, 264
Narin, Fort, 283
Nestorian Christianity, 94, 256, 323
Niaz Hakim Beg, 291
Nomad tribes, 240-41, 243
Norwegians, 4-5
Oases, 240, 301-2, 306
Opal, 169-70
Opium, 247
Ordam-Padshah, 94, 261
Oriental slackness, 40, 42
Osh, 23-6
Ovis ammon, 326
Ovis poli:
horns, 143, 326;
stalking, 131, 135, 146, 324-32
Pamirs:
British mission in, 289;
Russian authority in, 293-4, 299, 325
travel in:
preparations, 103-5;
journey begun, 105-7;
Gez River crossing, 107-11, 166;
daily routine, 112-13;
among the Kirghiz, 113-27;
Katta Dawan crossed, 129-31, 133, 327;
Karakul Lake, 130, 132, 134, 327;
ovis poli stalking, 133, 135, 327-8;
Khargush Pamir, 134-9;
fossils found, 141;
Pamirsky Post, 141-3, 328;
Uchak Valley, stalking in, 144, 329-31;
with the Sarikoli, 148-60;
Ulughat Pass, 166-8
Pamirsky Post, 139, 141-3, 328
Pan Ghao, General, 67, 250-51
Paper manufacture, 198
Parthia, Chinese missions to, 249, 251
Persia:
agriculture, 301;
character of people, 190;
China and, 253, 256;
deserts, 236
Peter the Great, 270
Petrograd, 3, 9-10
Philip of France, 178
Pigeon Shrine, 205-7
Polo, Marco, 129, 196, 205, 265, 324-5
Posgam, 192-3
Potais, 178-9, 196, 204
Pottery, 82
Prester John, 264
Przemyzl, capture of, 17
Ptolemy, 236
Races of Chinese Turkestan, 308
Rainfall, 239, 300
Ramazan, fast of, 125, 165, 171, 173-4
Raquette, Dr., 51-2
Rashid Khan, 269
Rémusat, 212, 215, 219
Revenue system, 243-4, 306
Revolution, Chinese, 294-9
Roads in Turkestan, 25, 27, 30-32, 228
Roche, Major, 143
Romanoff, M., 17, 81-2, 87
Russia, journey through, 9-15;
peasants, 14;
soldiers, 9, 10, 14;
the steppes, 15, 16, 22;
trains, 6, 13, 15, 17
policy of:
Sir Daria entered, 275-6;
hostilities with Khokand, 276, 277, 282, 283;
Turkestan province formed, 276;
Ili province occupied, 280;
Yakub Beg and, 282-6, 290, 291, 292;
treaty with Chinese, 293;
Pamir delimitation, 293-4;
troops in Kashgar, 297-8;
territories acquired, 299;
trade with, 245, 246, 247, 284
Russians:
colony in Kashgar, 46-51, 79-81, 105;
devotion, 11-12;
hospitality, 24, 47-9;
outposts in Pamirs, 133-5, 140, 141-3, 154;
primitive customs, 33-5;
Sarts and, 18, 19, 21
Russian Turkestan, journey through, 17-35
Sadi, 262
Sadik Beg, 277, 278
Safdar Ali Khan, 187
Said, Sultan, 268
Sakas, 249
Samara, 13-14
Samarkand, 216, 269
Sandstorms, 56, 239-40
Sanjar, Sultan, 262
Sarikol annexed, 280
Sarikolis, 131, 149, 153, 155, 157-160, 177, 308, 323
Sarts, 18-21
Satok Boghra Khan, 260
Sattur, 41-3, 50, 88, 113, 139, 158, 160-61, 166, 171, 172, 176
Sayyids, 92
Schlagintweit, Adolph, 274, 286
Semirechia, 299
Shah Murad Khan, 277
Shah Rukh, 268
Shakir Padshah, Imam, 206
Shamshir, 120-21
Shaw, Robert, 286-7
Sheep:
fat-tailed, 26, 44, 303;
Osh district, 26,44;
Yarkand, 185-6;
wolves and, 114, 124-5, 331;
wild, of Marco Polo, 131, 143, 146, 324-32
Shirin, 156
Shrines, 68-72, 92-5, 205-7, 310, 320
Sigm shrine, 320
Silk industry of Khotan, 213-15
Sir Daria, the, 20, 275-6
Snakes, 88
Snow-throwing custom, 321-2
Spiders, 88-9
Stein, Sir Aurel:
researches of, 76, 84, 94, 98, 107, 218-19, 242, 259;
returns from desert, 101-2;
helps in Pamir preparations, 105, 106;
bound for Persia, 166
Steppes, 15-16, 22
Stockholm, 5
“Stone Sheep-folds,” 114
Sturgeon, 8
Subashi, 162
Superstitions of Kashgari, 69, 318-320
Swedes, 5, 7-8
Swedish missionaries, 37, 44, 51, 52-53, 180, 184, 188-9, 190
Tagharma, 149, 152, 153
Taghdumbash Pamir, 155
Taghliks, 241
Taiping rebellion, 279-80
Tajiks, 242
Takla Makan desert, 84, 175, 195-7, 201-8, 236
Tamerlane, 216, 266-8
Tang dynasty, 255
Taotai of Kashgar, 295-6
Taoyin, or Governor, 242, 244
Tarantchis, 272, 280
Tarikh-i-Rashidi, 266
Tashkent, 18-20, 276, 277, 282;
fruit, 301
Tashkurghan, 149, 153-5, 177
Tashmalik oasis, 106-7
Taxes in Chinese Turkestan, 243-4, 306
Temple of Liu-Kin-tang, 97-8;
of Pan Ghao, 67
Terek Dawan, 30-32, 36, 273
Thum of Hunza, the, 187
Tian Shan, the, 25-37, 291
Tibetan invasion, 255, 257-8
Tims, 84
Tiznaf River, 192
Togkrak tree, 225
Toghril, 263-4
Tokharistan, 252
Tombs of the Mongols, 95
Tora, Haji, 284
Torgut Mongols, 270-71
Tornea, 9
Trade of Chinese Turkestan, 245-7, 289
Trains, Scandinavian and Russian, 6, 13, 15, 17
Trans-Alai range, 134, 327
Treaty of St. Petersburg, 293
Trotter, Capt., 287, 326
Tsar’s prohibition edict, 9, 24, 47
Tse Wang Rabdan, 270
Tughluk Timur, 265-6
Tuman Su River, 55, 66
Tunganis, 200, 241-2, 271, 278-9, 280-81, 295
Turfan, 235, 250, 253, 255, 260, 280, 291
Turkestan, city of, 17
Turkey and Yakub Beg, 284-5
Turki:
farriers, 62;
language, 261;
uncleanliness, 43
Turks:
Chinese Turkestan under, 261;
Northern, 255;
Western, empire of, 254, 255
Uchak Valley: ovis poli stalking in, 144, 329-31
Uighurs, 253, 258-9, 308
Ulughat Pass, 166-8
Urumchi, 242, 245, 259, 280, 290;
Chinese Revolution in, 294-5, 297-8
Uzbegs, 268
Victoria, Queen, 289
Vyborg, 9
Wakhan incident, 145, 293-4
Wakhijir pass, 247
Wali Khan Khoja, 273-4, 286
Wang Khan, the, 264
Whistling, 12, 64
White Huns, 253-4
White Mountaineers, 269
Wolves, 114, 124-5, 331
Wood, Lieutenant, 129, 143, 325
Women:
Chinese, 74, 75, 99-100;
Dulani, 223, 226-6;
Kashgari, 58-61, 64-65, 83, 92-3, 122, 310-15;
Khotan, 211-12, 253;
Kirghiz, 23, 114, 118-22, 133;
Moslem, 26, 40, 64-5, 92-3, 264-5;
Persian, 61;
Russian peasant, 14;
Sarikoli, 159;
Takla Makan, 200;
Tashkent, 20, 22;
Yarkandi, 187-9
Wu Kung, 258
Yagello, Colonel, 144, 145
Yaks, 123-4, 143;
riding, 162-4, 166-8
Yakub Beg:
army of, 281-2;
Britain and, 286-90;
Buddhist monuments destroyed by, 67, 84;
conquests of, 67, 71, 278-281;
fort of, 213;
garden belonging to, 188;
overthrown by Chinese, 58, 70, 290-92;
rest-houses built by, 181;
Russia’s relations with, 282-6;
tomb destroyed, 70
Yangi Hissar, 178, 180, 278
Yangi Shahr, 95-9, 240
Yarkand:
arrival at, 182-4;
bazars, 185-7;
Goez in, 270;
goitre, 184-5, 192;
horses, 302;
Khojas beaten at, 273;
mission colony, 188-9;
oasis, 181, 191;
population, 240, 246;
Shaw at, 286-7;
women, 187-9;
Yakub Beg captures, 278-9
Yarkand River, 225, 226, 238, 239
Yelui Tashi, 261
Yezdigird III., 256
Yezid, 242
Yonoff, Colonel, 293-4
Yotkan, 218-19
Younghusband, Sir Francis, 136, 236, 293-4, 325
Yuan-Shih-Kai, 295-6
Yue-chi, or Indo-Scythians, 249, 250-53
Yurungkash River, 217
Yuz Bashis, 243
Zarafshan or Yarkand River, 238
Zawa oasis, 206, 208, 219-20
Zoroastrianism, 155, 256
Zungars, 270-71
THE END
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