INDEX.

Åbo, Prison of, 63

Aboriginal population of Siberia, 52

Aborigines’ love of drink, 102

—— of Manchuria, 547

—— of the Yenesei, 205

Accident on tarantass journey, 251

Account of a Russian prison, 380

Across Europe, 9

Lake Baikal, 309

Adamson, Mr., the catechist, 229

Advocate, Profession of an, 582

Afloat with Russians, 732

Aged prisoners at Kara, 470

Agriculture of the Daurians, 549

Aigun, Difficulty of entering, 558

—— Government buildings at, 557

—— Population of, 556

—— Temple at, 558

—— Theatre at, 558

—— Town of, 495, 556

Aïno, Appearance of an, 650

—— language, 650

—— mission, 650

—— Translation into, 650

Akatuya, Prisoners in irons at, 421

Akmolinsk, Distribution of tracts in province of, 186

—— Dr. Finsch in, 159

Albazikha River, 515

Albazin, Country surrounding, 515

—— Sieges of, 515

—— Trees in vicinity of, 515

Alcohol and vodka, 544

Alcoholic liquors at Irkutsk, Price of, 265

Alexander, Peter, Protodiakonoff of Khabarofka, 673

—— Baptisms of Goldi by, 674

—— House of, 677

—— Translation of Gospels by, 673

—— Visit to, 673

Alexandreffsky, Inquiries concerning Author at, 249

—— Journey to, 243

—— Photography at, 250

—— Prison, 70, 245

Amusements, 83

Book for description of prisoners, 76

Books for, 249

Brickmaking, 247

Cigarette-paper making, 247

Convicts, Number of, 70

Director of, 244

Ethnography of, 246

Food, 79

Formerly a factory, 245

Gardening, 248

Hospital, 248

Petchka, 246

Prisoners in irons, 248

—— Number of, 246

—— seeing friends, 246

Scorbutus among prisoners, 249

Secret cell in, 245

Shoemaking in, 247

Work, 82, 446

—— Lack of, 247

Altai mountains, boundary of Russia in Asia, 19

—— Discovery of metals in, 153

—— Extent of, 148

—— Minerals in, 104

—— silver-mines, 411

Altars of sacrifice, 591

American animals, 644

Amur, Arrival on the, 503

—— Atkinson, Mr., on the, 440

—— Chernigovsky’s expedition, 492

—— Collins on the, 499

—— Colonists, 502

Amur, Cucumbers on the, 588

—— Difficulties with China, 501

—— History of the, 489

—— Ingoda steamer on the, 510

—— Khabarof’s expedition, 490

—— Length of the, 504

—— Lower:

Animals, 599

Boundary of, 580

Cats, Price of, 600

Cliff at Tyr, 589

Depth of, 580

Fish, 581

Flowers, 579

Fruit, 583

Gilyak habitation, 591

Hotsprings, 588

Ravenstein on the, 581

Religious services on the, 725

Scenery, 580

Settlers’ village, 588

Temperature of, 579

Trees of, 579

Weather, 627

Width of, 580–85

—— Middle:

Climate of, 532

Manyargs on, 507

Province, Area of, 543

Scenery of, 535

Scripture distribution, 538

—— Military Governor of the, 500

—— Muravieff, the Governor, 496

—— Pashkof’s expedition, 492

—— Population of province, 543

—— Poyarkof’s expedition, 490

—— Route through Siberia, 52

—— Russian conquests on the, 489

—— Source of the, 19

—— Stepanof’s expedition, 491

—— Territory of the, 504

Tribes’ appeal to China for help against Russia, 493

—— Upper:

Cliffs on the, 516

Flora of, 516

Peoples on Chinese bank, 506

—— Ust-Strelka, The river at, 514

—— Venyukoff’s mission, 494

—— Zeya steamer aground, 511

Amusements of the Chinese, 342

—— Dancing, 622

—— Gilyak, 602

—— Prison, 83

Amusements, Russian, 621

—— Swings, 621

Anadir River, 639

—— Fish in the, 640

Anadirsk, Fort of, 640

Andreoli, M., Exile of, 43

—— on flogging, 93

—— on the knout, 91

Andreyeff, M., Introduction to, 615

Anecdote concerning an “equipage,” 439

Angara River, Rapids of the, 311

—— Temperature of the, 310

Anglo-Chinese War, Influence of the, 501

Animals, American, 644

—— Asiatic, 644

—— Distribution over Siberia, 697

—— of chase in Yeneseisk, 207

—— of Sakhalin, 649

—— on Lower Amur, 599

—— Wild, 188

Aniva Bay, Scriptures for, 660

Annexation, Russian, of Siberia, 109

Antiquities, Bulgarian, 13

Appeal, Court of, 73

Apple-tree mountains, View of, 360

Archangel, Distribution of Scriptures at, 733

—— tour of Author, 4

“Archangel Gabriel” mine, 218

Archbishop of Irkutsk, Interview sought with, 274

—— of Tobolsk on tract distribution, 183

Archery in Manchuria, 556

Area of Russia in Asia, 18

—— of Tobolsk, 97

—— of Trans-Baikal province, 400

Argols as fuel, 368

Army officers, Pay of, 668

Arrests for drunkenness, Number of, 545

Arrival at Kamen-Ruiboloff, 686

—— at Petersburg, 9

Arrows and bows of Ostjaks, 126

Art in Siberia, 433

Asia and Europe, Frontier of, 18

—— Ethnography of Russia in, 19, 52

Asiatic animals, 644

—— boundary-line, 49

—— Russia, Population of, 20

Assaying gold at the mine, 223

Assizes, Court of, 73

Asylum at Krasnoiarsk, 229

—— for prisoners’ children, 77

Atchinsk, Ispravnik of, 195

Atkinson, Mr., on the Amur, 440

—— on Buriat missions, 375

—— on Kirghese, 159

—— on Nertchinsk climate, 425

Atmosphere of prisons, 381

Author, Dilemma of, at Khabarofka, 574

—— Distance travelled by, 770

—— Farewell of exile life by, 726–8

—— Impressions of, concerning exile life, 726–8

—— Inquiries concerning, at Alexandreffsky, 249

—— Itinerary of, round the world, 770

—— Object of journey of, 1

—— Opinion of, on prisons, 662

—— Religious services of, 701, 709, 725

—— Work of, in Western Siberia, 733

—— Works consulted by, 772

Awaking a Russian at Nijni Udinsk, 241

Baikal, Lake, 19

—— Area of, 312

—— Basin of, 312

—— Destination for political prisoners, 37

—— Fish of, 312

—— Flora of neighbourhood, 315

—— Storms on, 312

Bail found by prisoners, 74

Bank at Khabarofka, 578

—— Siberian State, 578

Bankova River, Fair held by Cossacks, 488

Baptism, Author’s administration of, 701, 709

—— Certificate of, 709

—— in the Russian Church, 167

—— of Goldi, 674

—— Service of, 167

Barge transport of exiles, 29, 120

Barnaul, Cemetery at, 152

—— Flora in district of, 149

—— Hospital at, 153

—— Journey to, 148

—— Land at, Cost of, 158

—— Museum at, 157

—— Poor-house at, 153

—— Population of, 152

—— Provisions at, Cost of, 158

—— Silver-smelting at, 156

—— Tatars at, 62

—— Usine at, 153–6

Barracks at Blagovestchensk, 526

—— at gold-mines, 223

—— at Kara, 452

—— at Nikolaefsk, 620

—— at Vladivostock, 718

Bath-room in Petersburg Model Prison, 66

Battle with cockroaches at Rasdolnoi, 702

Bays in the Primorsk, 562

Bazaar at Tomsk, 128

Bears, Mode of capturing, 209

—— venerated by Gilyaks, 606, 608

Beds in Siberia, 444

Beef at Irkutsk, Cheapness of, 265

Beggars at Krasnoiarsk, 228

—— at Tomsk, 228

Beljetchenko steamer, 117

—— Card-playing on the, 119

Bell exiled, 113

Bells of Russian churches, 332

Benediction of water, 169

Betrothal of Gilyaks, 601

Beverages of gold-miners, 224

Bezpopoftschins, Sects of, 759

Bible distribution on the Shilka, 539

—— possessed by priest at Krasnorechinska, 195

—— Russian Church and the, 181

—— Society:

Finnish grant of, 3

Irkutsk, Contemplated depôt at, 268

Kansk, 238

Roumanian grant, 3

Russian Scriptures printed for the, 8

Tomsk, Depôt at, 237

Bibliography of Siberia, 772

Bigotry of the Russian Church, 756

Biisk, Prison at, 133

Billings, Joseph, on Kamchatka, 631

Birching of prisoners, 89

—— Effects of, 473

Birch-trees on the Upper Amur, 515

Birds known to the Goldi, 600

—— of prey in Western Siberia, 189

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 202

—— on Mongolian frontier, 357

—— on the Yenesei, Seebohm on, 763

Bishop, Consecration of a, 167

“Black” Nihilists, 34

Blagovestchensk, Cossack barracks at, 526

—— Flood at, 532

—— Foundation of, 500

—— Government establishments at, 526

—— Meaning of, 518

—— Merchants’ stores at, 526

—— Meteorology of, 532

—— Missionary effort at, 518–19

—— Prison at, 525

—— Provisions at, Cost of, 527

—— Seminary for priests, 523

—— Students’ education at, 523

—— Temperature of, 532

Board at post-houses, 141

Boats of the Goldi, 600

—— of the Manchu, 554–5

—— on the Lena, 285

Bogotol, Hospitality at, 194

Bolan, Mission school at, 604

Books at Irkutsk hospital, 276

—— Church, Revision of, 758

—— English, on Siberia, at Nikolaefsk, 629

—— for prison, 113

—— for prisoners at Irkutsk, 277

—— for the Trans-Baikal, 400

Letters concerning them, 401, 402

—— left with Gen. Ismailoff, 279

—— left with M. Lochwitzky, 279

—— for Alexandreffsky prison, 249

—— on Siberian prisoners, 379

—— Stock of, at Irkutsk, 280

Boot-making in prison, 247

Bothnian tour of Author, 540

Boundaries of Siberia, 49

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 199

Boundary of Russia and China, 323

Bows and arrows of the Ostjaks, 126

Boys’ Industrial School at Vladivostock, 723

Branding prisoners abolished, 464

Bread, A substitute for, 642

—— Black, 141

Bribery by prisoners, 39

Bribery in trading transactions, 626

—— of guards by exiles, 39

—— of prison officials, 277

Brickmaking at Alexandreffsky, 247

British Workman in Russ, 7

Brunière, De la, missionary to Gilyaks, 612

Buddhist praying machine, 373

—— temple at Maimatchin, 344

Building a Siberian prison, 70

Buildings at Nikolaefsk, 625

Bulgarian Antiquities, Museum of, 13

Bureya district, Climate of, 542

—— mountains, Coal in the, 536

—— Scenery of, 537

Burial service of the Russian Church, 152

Buriats as drivers, 356–69

—— attitude towards exiles, 40

—— Conversion of, 374

—— feast of boiled mutton, 367

—— Fuel of, 368

—— habitations, 366

—— lamasery, or monastery, 335

—— method of salutation, 356

—— Missions to the, 357

Atkinson, Mr., on, 375

Cochrane, J. D., on, 375

Hill, Mr. S. S., on, 375

—— Obos of the, 405

—— Occupation of the, 369

—— opposition to invasion, 281

—— Physiognomy of, 364

—— Population of, 369

—— Possessions of the, 369

—— Religion of the, 370

—— Respect of, for Lamas, 371

—— treatment of escaped convicts, 40

—— Women’s head-dresses, 365

“Buried Alive,” by Goryantchikoff, on flogging, 654

—— on political prisoners, 384

Burney, Capt., on Kamchatka, 631

Burning of Irkutsk, 253

Bush, Mr., on Kamchatka, 633

Busse, General, Military Governor of the Amur, 500

Butter, Siberian, 188

—— Cost of, 317

Butterflies on the Alexandreffsky route, 240

Camels, Caravan route by, 351

—— on Mongolian frontier, 357

Candidates for holy orders, Lack of, 171

Candle worship, 164

Caravan transport in Siberia, 354

Card-playing at Sakhalin, 656

—— by prisoners, 388

—— on the Beljetchenko, 119

—— on the Ussuri, 680

Carriage, Siberian, Cost of, 105, 746

Carts of the Manchu, 552

Catechist at Krasnoiarsk, 229

Cathedral at Kiakhta, 332

—— at Krasnoiarsk, 230

—— singing, 165

Cats, Price of, on Lower Amur, 600

Cattle in the Primorsk, 697

—— of the Manchu, 550

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 204

Cattley, Oswald, Loan of tarantass by, 27

—— on Obi trade, 27, 108, 761

Cavalry, Mongolian, in Kiakhta, 326

Cells at Blagovestchensk, 525

—— Dark, in Model Prison at Petersburg, 66

—— in Kara prison, 469

—— Solitary, 88

Cemeteries, Russian, 152

Cemetery at Barnaul, 152

Certificate of baptism, 709

Chains worn by prisoners, 154

Changing horses, 140

Chapel in Model Prison at Petersburg, 67

—— Lutheran, at Krasnoiarsk, 228

Chaplain for prisoners at Kara, 458

Chaplains of prisons, 663

Character of Koriaks, 640

Cheese-making, 188

Cheliuskin, Cape, Discovery of, 767

—— rounded by Nordenskiöld, 292

Chernigovsky’s expedition on the Amur, 492

Children of prisoners’ asylum, 77

China, Boundary of, 323

—— Difficulties with, on Amur question, 501

—— Ethnography of empire, 206

—— High road to, 52

—— North-east passage to, attempted, 766

—— Population of, 206

—— Travellers on Mongolian route, 349

—— Treaties with Russia, 323

Chinese amusement, 342

—— appealed to by Amur tribes, 493.

—— chopsticks, 347

—— clerks at Maimatchin, 340

—— demand for silver money, 715

—— dinner at Maimatchin, 345

—— exports into Russia, 341

—— in the Primorsk, Number of, 714

—— junks and houses at Vladivostock, 716

—— merchant at Maimatchin, 339

—— method of salutation, 356

—— samovar, 347

—— use of tea, 340

Chita, 70

—— Cucumbers at, 426

—— Flora in neighbourhood of, 404

—— Plète at, 94

—— Population of, 361

—— Prison at, 362

The “Black-cart” at, 362

—— Situation of, 361

Baron R[osen] on, 425

Christian Goldi, Photograph of, 674

Christmas presents to scholars at Vladivostock, 723

Chukchee coast, Fauna of, 643

Vega frozen in on the, 646

—— country, Flora of, 644

—— language, 647

Chukchees, Marriage customs of the, 643

—— Number of the, 639

Church affairs in province of Irkutsk, 273

—— at Kozloffskaya, 670

—— at Nikolaefsk, 624

—— Baptism, 167

Certificate of, 709

—— Bells, 332

—— Bigotry, 756

—— Bishop, Consecration of a, 167

—— books, Revision of, 758

—— Candles, 164

—— Cathedrals, 165

—— Clergy, 163

—— committees, 163

—— Confession, contrition, and communion, 169, 237

—— “Consistory,” 164

—— Consolidation of the, 751

—— Dioceses, 163

—— “Directory,” 163

—— discipline, 175

—— Doctrines of Russian, Roman, and English, 754

—— Eastern, Greek, and Russian, Distinction between, 162

—— Fanatical sects, 758

—— Fasting, 177

—— Foundation of, 751

—— History of the, 751

—— Holy oil, 169

—— Images, Worship of, 164

—— Journal of priest, 174

—— knowledge, Sources of, 161

—— Liturgy, 166

—— Lutheran, at Vladivostock, 717

—— Metropolitans, 176

—— Missionary collections, 520

—— Monasteries, 163–77

Clergy of, 176

—— music, 165

—— Nunneries, 179

—— Obligation of clergy to be married, 524

—— Orders, 166

—— Ordinations, 166

—— Parish priest: Position, pay, and tithes of, 172–3

—— Parishioners, 163

—— Penance, Sacrament of, 169

—— Picture worship, 164

—— Priests, Social disadvantages of, 173

—— processions, 174

—— Protestants in Siberia, Number of, 726

—— Reformation period, 753

—— Registers, 174

—— Relation of Greek to English, 181

—— Ritual, 166

—— Rural deaneries, 163

—— schisms, 756

—— Seminary for priests at Blagovestchensk, 523

—— Sermons, 460, 671

Number of, yearly, in Petersburg, 460

—— Services:

Burial, 152

Commemoration of the Virgin, 165

Marriage, 168

—— Transition period, 752

—— Unction, Sacrament of, 169

—— Vestments, 163–4

Churches at Irkutsk, 265

Churching of women, 167

Cigarette-making at Alexandreffsky, 247

City on fire, 253

Civic arrangements in Russian towns, 716

Classification of exiles, 29, 33

—— of prisoners, 72, 450

Clergy of Siberian Church, 163

—— Fasting of, 177

—— Monastic, 176

Clerical vestments, 164

Cliffs on the Upper Amur, 516

—— on the Shilka River, 483

Climate of the Middle Amur, 532

—— of Bureya district, 542

—— of Kamchatka, 635

—— of Kansk, 240

—— of Lake Khanka district, 690

—— of Nertchinsk, 426

Atkinson, Mr., on, 425

—— of Nikolaefsk, 563

—— of the Lower Primorsk, 564

—— of Tomsk, 127–46

Clothing, 50

—— of Cossacks, 683

—— of prisoners, 80, 455

—— of seamen, 737

Club, Officers’, at Nikolaefsk, 624

Coal at Dui, 81

—— at Sakhalin, 651

—— at Vladivostock, 678

—— in Bureya mountains, 536

Coat of fish-skin, 597

Cochrane, Capt., on Buriat missions, 375

—— Travels of, 282–5

—— Visit of, to Nertchinsk, 412

Cockroaches at Rasdolnoi, Battle with, 702

Coldest town—Yakutsk, 296

Collections at church doors for missions, 520

Collins, Mr., Descent of, in a silver-mine, 412

—— on the Amur, 499

—— Visit of, to Nertchinsk, 417

—— Voyage of, down the Shilka, 441

Colonies of Finns in Siberia, 131

Colonists, Exile, in Eastern Siberia, Number of, 451

—— “Little” Russians as, 32

—— on the Amur, 502

—— Penal, at Vladivostock, 726

—— Privileges granted to, 698

Colonization of the Lower Amur, 500

Commandant of Kara Prison: Government allowance to, 474

—— Hospitality of, 480

—— Namesday of, 479

—— Salary of, 461

Commemorations of the Virgin, 165

Commerce of Tiumen, 27

—— of Vladivostock, 716

—— Russo-Chinese:

Kiakhta as a centre of, 324

—— The Obi as an outlet for, 51

Commercial school at Tiumen, 28

Committees in connection with prisons, 77

Communication by Siberian roads, 51

Confession and Communion, 237

—— Priestly, 169, 237

Confinement, Solitary, 88

Conquests of Russia on the Amur, 489

—— of Yermak, 57

Conscription, Russian, Method of, 736

Consecration of a Bishop, 167

Consolidation of the Russian Church, 751

Contemporary Review on political exiles, 413

Contraband articles in Model Prison of Petersburg, 67

Conversion of a learned lama, 521

—— of Buriats, 374

—— of the Yakutes, Tzar’s ukase for the, 305

Convict clothing and chains, 155

exiles as servants, 730

Convicts at Alexandreffsky, Number of, 70

—— at Kara, Freedom of, 448

Number of, 445

—— in the mines, 462

—— labour compared with English, 662

—— opinions of Tobolsk prison, 115

Convicts, Runaway, hunted down by Buriats, 40

Cooking not usually needed, 512

—— “Rob Roy” cuisine, 145

Copper-mine, Descent of a, 21

—— at Nijni Tagilsk, 138

—— Malachite in, 21

Corean fugitives, 714

—— houses, 715

Corporal punishment, 423

Correspondence with exiles, 38

Cossacks, Barracks for, at Blagovestchensk, 526

—— Buriats’ opposition to, 281

—— Clothing of, 683

—— combing goats, 26

—— fair on Shilka, 488

—— Food of, 682–3

—— Houses of, 683

—— in Lower Primorsk, 568

—— on the Ussuri, 681

—— Pay of, 682

—— Summer barracks at Kara, 452

Cost of carriage in Siberia, 105, 746

—— of salmon at Nikolaefsk, 628

—— of Siberian butler, 317

Costume of a Tunguse Shaman, 158

—— of the Kirghese, 158

—— of the Manchu, 551

—— The Mala-Russiá, 250

Cottin, Madame de, “Story of Elizabeth,” 379–83

Country of the Daurians, 548

—— of the Samoyedes, 98

—— round Albazin, 515

Courier travelling, 134

Courts of law, Russian and Siberian, 73

Cows near Tomsk, 188

Creed, Religious, of exiles, 29

Crime attributed to drunkenness, 29

—— in district of Kansk, 235–6

Crimean war, Influence of the, 497

Crimes of exiles, 34

—— of prisoners at Kara, 448

Criminals at Nikolaefsk, Birching of, 89

—— Desperate, 655

—— Statistics of, 72

—— Zavod work for, 82

Cucumbers at Chita, 426

—— on the Amur, 588

Curiosity of fellow-passengers concerning Scripture distribution, 539

Custom at leave-taking, 353

—— of addressing friends, 406, 620

Customs of Goldi, 672

—— Trade, 627

Daily Telegraph on number of political prisoners, 396

Dancing at Mikhailofsky, 622

Daurians, Agriculture of the, 549

—— Country of the, 548

—— Howorth, Mr., on the, 548

—— Religion of the, 549

Dead, Gilyaks’ treatment of the, 611

—— Manchurian treatment of, 554

Deaneries, Rural, of the Russian Church, 163

Decembrists, Sympathy of Russians for, 32, 378

Decocq’s hotel at Irkutsk, 254

Deer in Southern Manchuria, 696

—— of the Koriaks, 642

De la Brunière, Missionary to Gilyaks, 612

De Lagny on Siberian political prisoners, 380

—— on the knout, 380

De Lesseps on Kamchatka, 631

—— travels in Siberia, 282

Demidoff hospital at Tagil, 24

—— mines at Nijni Tagilsk, 21

—— works at ditto, 21

Demidoffs, Riches of the, 23

Deportation of exiles, Localities, 37

—— Modern plan of, 42

—— of political prisoners to the Trans-Baikal, 377

—— of vagrants to Sakhalin, 37

Depôt for sale of Scriptures at Krasnoiarsk, 232

Description of a Siberian village, 190

—— of the plète, 90, 92

Deserted village at Pashkova, 671

Desperate criminals, 655

Destination of exiles, Walking to, 44

Destruction of property by fire at Irkutsk, 263

De Vries, Capt., of Vladivostock, 712

Dialect of Koriaks, 640

Diet of prisoners at Kara, 453

Dinner among Chinese at Maimatchin, 345

—— at a Siberian hotel, 431

—— at Nikolaefsk, 619

Diocese of Irkutsk, Number of churches, 274

Dioceses of Siberian Church, 163

Director of Alexandreffsky prison, 244

—— Pay of, at Irkutsk prison, 277

Directories of Siberian Church, 163

Discipline, Ecclesiastical, 175

Discoveries of Nordenskiöld and Wiggins, 761

Discovery of the Shilka River, 492

Dissent, Exiled for, 34

—— Scoptsi village of, 205

Dissenters, Efforts to reclaim, 518

—— Number of, 519–27

Distance travelled by Author, 770

Distress at Irkutsk after fire, 269

Distribution of exiles, 43

—— of Scriptures and tracts, 3, 7, 8, 11, 121–9, 183–6, 401, 538, 665–6, 703–33

Djiguitt, Divine Service on board the, 740

—— in a squall, 742

—— Inspection of the, 741

—— Officers of the, 738

—— Prison on board the, 739

—— Speed of the, 735

Dobell, Peter, Travels of, 283

Doctors in Siberian towns, 619

Doctrine of the Scoptsi, 205

Doctrines of the Russian, Roman, and English Churches, 754

Dogs of Kamchatka, 636

—— used by Gilyaks and Goldi, 600

—— Yakute, Breeding of, 304

Dostoyeffsky’s “Buried Alive” and political prisoners, 384

Douga, Description of the, 137

Dress of Gilyaks in winter, 597

—— of penal colonists at Vladivostock, 728

—— of the Samoyedes, 99

—— of the Yakutes, 302

—— The Mala-Russia, 250

Drink, Aborigines’ love of, 102

—— and its follies, 225

—— Madness through, 229

—— Murder under influence of, 155

Drivers, Buriats as, 356

Drunkards exiled by Russian villagers, 34

Drunkenness: Alcohol and vodka, 544

—— Arrests for, Number of, 545

—— as a cause of crime, 29

—— at social leave-taking, 118

—— Comparison of Russian with English, 544

—— Effect on trade, 627–30

—— of gold-miners, 225

—— of yemstchik, 252

—— on board the Zeya, 506

Dubininskaya, Arrival at, 692

Dui coal-mines, 81

—— Plète in prison at, 653

—— Prison food at, 656

Officers at, 660

—— Prisons at, 652

—— Scriptures for, 660

Dukhobortsi, Sect of, 760

Dutch explorers, 766

Duty of Priests, Treatise on the, 181–2

Dwellings of the Manchu, 549

—— Yakutes’, 500

Eagles tamed by Kirghese, 189

Earthquakes in Kamchatka, 635

Eastern and Western Siberia, 51, 188

—— Greek, and Russian Church, Distinction between, 162

Ecclesiastical discipline, 175

Echo on exiles’ march, 415

Eden, C. H., on quicksilver, 410

Education in Russia, Cost of, 719

Subjects of study, 720

—— in Western Siberia, 150

—— of exiles, 32

—— clerical, at Blagovestchensk, 523

Ekaterineburg, Englishmen at, 25

—— Prisoners, Money allowance to, 78

—— Railway to, 17

—— Town of, 25

—— Transport of exiles to, 43

Ekaterino-Nicolsk, Distribution of Scriptures at, 538

—— Garden at, 537

“Elizabeth, Story of,” by Madame de Cottin, 379–83

Elk, Hunting of the, 209

Emeralds of the Odon Tchelon mountain, 407

Emery, Mr. Enoch, 614

Employment of prisoners in ship-yards, 420

Engineering firm at Tiumen, 27

Engines, Fire, 573

English and Russian drunkenness compared, 544

—— books at Nikolaefsk, 629

—— graves at Selenginsk, 319

—— mission to Buriats, Story of the, 318

—— newspaper accounts of exiles’ passage, 45

—— suspected at Petersburg, 329

Englishmen at Ekaterineburg, 25

“Equipage,” Description of an, 439

Erdmann, Admiral, Governor of Vladivostock, 717

—— Madame, Introduction to, 717

Erman on the valley of the Lena, 284

Escape of prisoners at Kara, 465

Étape prisons, 44, 69, 616

—— Number of soldiers employed for, 667

Ethnography in Kasan government, 14

—— of Alexandreffsky prisoners, 246

—— of Russia in Asia, 19, 52

—— of Russian and Chinese empires, 206

—— of Tobolsk province, 98

Europe and Asia, Frontier of, 18

—— Weather in crossing, 24

Exchange of money, 731

Exchanging names and punishments, 75

Excitement at Petersburg, 328

Exile convict servants, 730

—— life, Author’s farewell and impressions of, 726–8

Exiles accompanied by wives, 36

—— as colonists, 451

—— bribing guards, 39

—— Buriats’ attitude towards, 40

—— Classification of, 29, 33

—— Correspondence, 38

—— Crimes of, 33

—— Deportation, Localities of, 37

Modern plan of, 42

—— destination, Walking to, 44

—— Distribution of, 43

—— Education of, 32

—— Étape prisons for, 44

—— for dissent, 34

—— Fund for, at Moscow, 43

—— Gilyaks’ attitude towards, 40

—— in Kansk, 32

—— Lemke on treatment of, 413

—— March of, Echo on, 415

—— Marriage rites of, 35

—— Number of, 32, 39

—— on the march, 48

—— Passage of, English newspapers on, 45

—— passing through Tiumen, 395

—— Perisylnie prisons for, 44

—— Political:

Contemporary Review on, 413

Whyte, Mr., on number of, 394

—— Presents to, 42

—— Proportion condemned to hard labour, 37

—— Raskolnik, 32

—— receiving the plète, 35

—— Réclus, M., on the first, 31

—— Release, A, 38

—— Religious creed of, 29

—— Religious scruples respected, 460

—— Returned, Number of, 729

—— route, viâ Suez Canal, 44

—— Runaways, Capture of, 40

—— Sentences of, 35

—— Social ties of, 41

—— Transport by barge and rail, 29, 42, 43

Expedition of Chernigovsky on the Amur, 492

—— of Khabarof, 490

—— of Pashkof, 492

—— of Poyarkof, 490

—— of Stepanof, 491

Explorations, Early, by sea and land, 766

—— of Nordenskiöld, 51, 107, 292

—— Scientific, in Siberia, 768

Export of furs from Siberia, 295

Exports at Vladivostock, 714

—— Chinese, into Russia, 341

—— from Siberia, 341

—— Probable future of, 105

Extravagance of gold-miners, 225

“Fabric” work, 82

Fair at Nijni Novgorod, 12

—— on the River Bankova, 488

Fanatical sects, 758

Fasting of clergy, 177

Fasting of prisoners, 79

Fauna of Chukchee coast, 643

—— of Sakhalin, 649

—— of the Primorsk, 565

Feast of mutton by Buriats, 367

Female prisoners at Kara, 467–8

Ferry, A Siberian, 139

Fertility of Tobolsk, 104

Finland: Grant of Bible Society, 3

—— Prisons in, 63

Finnish colonies, Transport of prisoners to, 131

—— pamphlets, Gift of, 53

Finns at Ruschkova, 5

Finsch, Dr., in Akmolinsk, 159

in Semipolatinsk, 159

Fire at Irkutsk, 253

—— at Perm, 16

—— engines, 573

Fires due to incendiarism, 269

Fish eaten by Gilyaks, 596

—— Gilyak mode of catching, 598

—— in Lake Khanka, 679

—— in Primorsk, Price of, 569

—— in River Sungacha, 679

—— in River Ussuri, 679

—— in the Anadir, 640

—— Manchurian method of catching, 555

—— of Lake Baikal, 312

—— of the Yenesei, 201

—— on the Lower Amur, 581

—— pie a Siberian luxury, 432

—— skin coat, 597

—— trade at Nikolaefsk, 628

Fisheries of the Obi and Taz, 123

Fishing in Manchuria, Method of, 555

—— boat of the Manchu, 555

Fleas and vermin in prisons, 363

Fleet, Siberian:

Officers, Pay of, 734

Sailors, Clothing of, 736

—— Food of, 736

—— Pay of, 734

—— Religious professions of, 741

Flight of inhabitants from Irkutsk fire, 257

Flogging prisoners, Andreoli on, 93

—— Goryantchikoff on, 654

Flood at Blagovestchensk, 532

Flooding of the Yenesei, 198, 219

Flora at Kansk, 239

—— between Tomsk and Barnaul, 149

—— in Kamchatka, 636

—— in neighbourhood of Chita, 404

—— in private houses, 231

—— of Chukchee country, 644

—— of Lake Baikal vicinity, 315

—— of North-east Siberia, 645

—— of Sakhalin, 649

—— of the Primorsk, 565

—— of the Upper Amur, 517

—— of the Yenesei, 219

Flour sold at Nikolaefsk, 569

Flowers at Khabarofka, 579

Food of Cossacks, 682–3

—— of Gilyaks, 596

—— of miners, 419

—— of natives at Sakhalin, 650

—— of prisoners, 78, 276, 453, 656

Cost of, 80

Difficulty in procuring, 659

Horseflesh reported as, 746

—— of sailors in Siberian fleet, 736

Forçats, Classification of, 449

—— Escape of, 466

—— Meaning of, 449

Forests near Krasnoiarsk, 220

—— of Yeneseisk, 200

Formation of the Shilka River, 482

Fort of Anadirsk, 640

Fortress of Sibir, 110

Fortunes of gold-miners, 226

Foundation of Krasnoiarsk, 112

—— of Mariinsk, 585

—— of Nikolaefsk, 615

—— of Russian Church, 751

—— of town of Yakutsk, 112, 281

Foxes, Hunting of, 209

Franklin, Sir John, and his “equipage,” 439

Free colonists, Privileges of, 698

—— school at Vladivostock, 722

Freedom of convicts at Kara, 448

Frontier of Europe and Asia, 18

Frozen butchers’ meat, 265

Fruit at Vladivostock, 690

—— in Kamchatka, 636

—— on Lower Amur, 583

—— Siberian, 149

Fuel, Argols used as, 368

Fugitives, Corean, 714

Furniture of Siberian prisons, 71

—— of Yakutes’ houses, 301

Furs from Siberia, Export of, 295

Gambling, Effects on trade, 627

—— of Russians, 119

Game, Abundance of, 696

Garden at Ekaterino-Nicolsk, 537

—— at Vladivostock, 717

Gardening by prisoners, 248

Gaulois on number of political prisoners, 396

Gems in neighbourhood of Nertchinsk, 407

—— in Trans-Baikal province, 378

General Korsakoff, On board the, 314

“Géographie Universelle” of M. Réclus, 631

Geological Museum at Barnaul, 157

Gilyaks, Amusements of the, 602

—— attitude towards exiles, 40

—— Bears, Veneration for, 606, 608

—— Betrothal of, 601

—— Children of, 595

—— Country, Extent of, 594

—— Dead, Treatment of the, 611

—— Dogs used by, 600

—— dress in winter, 597

—— Etymology, 593

—— Family of, 603

—— Fish eaten by, 596

—— Fishing, 598

—— Food of, 596

—— Foreign relationships, 602

—— habitations on Amur, 591

—— Habits of, 599

—— Hotsprings at village of, 588

—— Idols of, 606

—— Mission schools for, 604

—— Missionaries to the, 612–66

—— Occupation of, 598

—— Polygamy among, 601

—— Population, 594

—— Religion of, 609

—— Shamanism, 609

—— Stature of, 594

—— Superstitions of, 605

—— Tigers, Fear of, 606

—— Villages of the, 593

—— Winter habitations of, 595

—— Women, Estimation of, 601

Ginseng of Manchuria, 691

—— on Upper Ussuri, Plantations of, 566

Girls’ Institute at Vladivostock, 721

Glaisher, Mr., Introductions from, 10

—— Meteorological instruments, 147

Gluttony of the Yakutes, 301, 307

Goats of the Kirghese, 26

Goitre, Siberians afflicted with, 285

Gold deposits, 213

—— digging, 214

—— found in the Trans-Baikal province, 378, 428

—— in the Primorsk, 583

—— in the Za-Baikal, 462

—— in Yakutsk, 295

—— mine, The “Archangel Gabriel,” 218

—— miners at Irkutsk, 264

Drunkenness of, 225

Extravagance of, 225

—— mines, 223

Beverages for workmen, 224

Subterranean work of, 216

Wages at, 223

(See also “Mines”)

—— mining, Season for, 462

—— Prospecting party, A, 213

—— Russian, 211

—— seekers, 212–13

—— washing, 477, 583

Goldi, Appearance of, 583

—— Baptisms of, 674

—— Birds known to, 600

—— boats, 600

—— Customs of, 672

—— Dogs, Use of, 600

—— language, 604

—— lexicon, 604

—— Missionary to, 671

—— Number of, 672

—— Photograph of, 674

—— Physiognomy of, 672

—— Polygamy among, 601

—— weddings, 601, 674

—— wives, Price of, 601, 674

—— women, Estimation of, 601

Gordon, Peter, Travels of, 284

Goryantchikoff on flogging of prisoners, 654

Gospels translated by Archdeacon of Khabarofka, 673

Gostinnoi Dvor, or Bazaar, at Tomsk, 128

Government allowance to Commandant of Kara, 474

Government buildings at Aigun, 557

—— establishments at Blagovestchensk, 526

—— grant to Vladivostock Girls’ Institute, 721

“Governments” in Siberia, 50

Governor of a province, 51

—— of Tobolsk, 113

Governors-General, 51

—— Houses of, 192

Granite rocks on the Shilka, 487

Graves of English missionaries at Selenginsk, 319

Greek Church, Penance in, 169

Relation of, to English Church, 181

—— Russian, and Eastern Church, Distinction between, 162

Guards bribed by exiles, 39

Habitations of Buriats, 366

—— of Gilyaks, 591–5

—— of Koriaks, 641

Habits of Gilyaks, 599

Hakodate to Yokohama, 743

Harbour of Vladivostock, 712

Hard-labour prisons at Tobolsk, 70, 82

—— of exiles, Proportion condemned to, 37

Hardships of gold-miners, 216

—— of isvostchiks, 627

Harness of Siberian horses, 137

—— The douga, 137

Head-dress of Buriat women, 365

—— of Tatar women, 58

Hearthrugs for tarantass travelling, 136

Heathen rites at Kasan, 13

Hellman, Miss Alba, 5

—— Gift of pamphlets by, 53

Helsingfors Dagblad, Author’s Bothnian tour in the, 540

Herbaceous plants in the Lower Primorsk, 566

Hertzen, Alex., on political prisoners, 380

High school at Vladivostock, 719

Hill, Mr., on Buriat missions, 375

—— on the Lena, 284

—— Travels of, 230

History of the Amur, 489

—— of the Russian Church, 751

Holy Oil in Church service, 169

Holy Orders in the Russian Church, 166

Scarcity of candidates, 171

—— Unction, Office of the, 169–70

Honesty of the Ostjaks, 102

—— of the Samoyedes, 102

Horns of the reindeer, 209

Horse-eating by the Yakutes, 301

—— flesh reported as food for prisoners, 746

Horses, Changing of, 140

—— Harness of, 137

—— Orochons’, 508

—— Shoeing of, 232

—— Siberian, 123

—— Yakutes’ treatment of, 308

Hospital at Alexandreffsky, 249

—— at Barnaul, 153

—— at gold-mine, 223

—— at Irkutsk, Books for, 276

—— at Kara, 471

—— at Tagil, 24

—— at Tomsk, 229

Hospitality at Bogotol, 194

—— at Krasnoiarsk, 232

—— in Siberia, 353, 431

—— of Commandant at Kara, 480

—— of Kamchatdales, 639

Hospitals at Nikolaefsk, 617

—— at Vladivostock, 617

—— Impressions of, 618

Hotel at Irkutsk, 254

—— at Krasnoiarsk, 228

—— Siberian, Method of dining, 431

Hot-springs at Gilyak village, 588

Hours of labour at a gold-mine, 224

Houses at Kozloffskaya, 671

—— at Krasnoiarsk, 230

—— at Maimatchin, 339

—— Flora in, 231

—— of Buriats, 366

—— of Chinese, 716

—— of Coreans, 715

—— of Cossacks, 683

—— of Gilyaks, 595

—— of Governors-General, 192

—— of Kamchatdales, 639

—— of Manchu, 550

—— of Siberians, 190

—— of Yakutes, 301

Howard Association Report, Mistake of Mr. Tallack in, 745

Howorth, Mr. on Daurians, 548

—— on the Manchu, 548

—— on the Samoyedes, 98

Hunting by the Orochons, 509

—— Eagles trained for, 189

—— Methods of, 207

—— of foxes, 209

—— the elk, 209

Idols, Gilyak, 606

—— of the Yurak-Samoyedes, 103

—— Tchuvash and Tcheremisi, 14

Ignatoff, Mr., at Tiumen, 29

—— Influence of, 118–60

Ikons, Worship of, 331

Image-worship, 164

Immorality, Effects on trade, 627

Importation of tea into Russia, 325

Imports at Vladivostock, 714

—— of the Primorsk, 570

Impressions of exile life, 726–8

Incendiarism in Siberia, 269

Income of a tayoshnik, 217

Indictment of a prisoner, 75

Industrial school for boys at Vladivostock, 723

Influence of the Anglo-Chinese war, 501

—— of the Crimean war, 497

Ingoda, Collins’s descent, 482

—— Gold-mines on the, 212

Ingoda steamer on the Amur, 510

Inhabitants of the Primorsk, 567

—— of Vladivostock, 713

Inmates of Irkutsk prison, 275

Innokente, St., Shrine of, 274

Inquisitiveness about Author, 249

Inspection of the Djiguitt, 741

Inspector of schools of Eastern Siberia, 11

Institute for girls, 721

Institution for prisoners’ children at Tomsk, 130

Institutions for training schoolmasters, 278

Instruments, Meteorological, 147

Insubordination of prisoners, 393

Interpreter a necessity, 4

—— Joined by, 13

—— Parting with, 439

Introductions, Numbers of, 11

Invasion of Cossacks opposed by Buriats, 281

Irkutsk, Alcoholic liquors at, 265

—— Archbishop of, Interview sought, 274

—— Bible Society at, 268

—— Books at, Stock of, 280

—— Churches, 265

—— Decocq’s hotel at, 254

—— Deputy-Governor of, 267

—— Diocese, Churches of, 274

—— Distress, Relief of, 269

—— on fire, 253

Firemen’s arrangements, 259

Flight of inhabitants, 257

Museum burnt, 268

Origin, Supposed, 269

Procession at, 260

Property destroyed, 263

Provisions, Procuring, after the fire, 309

Ruins of the city, 267

Salvage, Articles of, 258

Spectacle of burning city, 260–62

—— Founding of city, 264

—— Gold-miners, Resort for, 264

—— hospital, 268

—— Larsen, Mr., Introduction to, 265

—— Limit (Proposed) of travel, 253

—— Markets at, 265

—— prison:

Director, Pay of, 277

Food for hospital and, 276

Inmates of, 275

Library of, 77

—— prisoners:

Books for, 276–7

Money allowed to, 276

—— Provisions at, 265

—— Roads of, 139

—— School at, 278

—— Shrine of St. Innokente, 274

—— Usine at, 268

—— Winter at, 264

Iron in the valley of the Tom, 104

—— ore in Yenesei valley, 210

—— Smelting of, by Yakutes, 304

—— Tons cast in 1879, 156

—— works at Petrovsky Zavod, 355

Irons on prisoners, 85, 248, 421–63

Irtish, barge for prisoners, 120

—— Tract distribution on the, 121

Island of Sakhalin, 648

Ismailoff, Gen., Deputy-Governor of Irkutsk, 267

Ismailoff, Gen., Books left with, 279

Ispravniks, 29, 51, 195, 234

—— Pay of, 235

Isvostchiks, Hardships of, 627

Itinerary round the world, 770

Jail at Tomsk, 128

Japan, Russian Missions in, 358

Jews at Kara, 455

—— at Tiumen, 460

Journal, A priest’s, 174

Journey by rail from Petersburg to Moscow, 25

—— of an exile from Petersburg to Tobolsk, 42

—— of Author, Extent of, 770

Object of, 1

—— of 2,670 miles by rail, 24

—— to Alexandreffsky, 243

—— to Barnaul, 148

Journeys of previous travellers, 282

Juchova, Price of provisions at, 120

Judges of the Peace, 73

Junks of the Chinese, 716

Jury, Trial by, 73

Kachugskoe, Width of Lena at, 287

Kama River, 16

—— Steamers on the, 29

Kamchatdales, Appearance of, 637

—— Hospitality of, 639

—— Houses of, 639

—— Number of, 638

Kamchatka, Anadir River, 639

—— Area of, 634

—— Billings, Joseph, on, 631

—— Burney, Capt., on, 631

—— Bush, Mr., on, 633

—— Capital of, 638

—— Climate of, 635

—— De Lesseps on, 631

—— Dogs of, 636

—— Earthquakes in, 635

—— Flora of, 636

—— Fruit in, 636

—— Language of, 637

—— Locality of, 630

—— Sledging in, 637

—— Vegetables of, 645

—— Volcanoes in, 635

—— Wildfowl of, 637

Kamen Ruiboloff, Arrival at, 686

Kansk, Bible Society and, 238

—— Climate of, 240

—— Crime in district of, 235–6

—— Exiles in, 32

—— Flora of, 239

—— Ispravnik of, 234

—— Priests at, 236

—— Prison at, 235

—— School at, 237

Kara, Barracks for Cossacks in summer, 452

—— Commandant, Government allowance to, 474

Hospitality of, 480

Namesday of, 479

Salary of, 461

—— Gold-washing at, 477

—— Hospitals at, 471

—— Murderers sent to, 37

—— Police-master at, 485

—— prison:

Cells in, 469

Diet, Scale of, 453

Photography by priest, 458

Plète at, 464

—— Prisoners at:

Aged, 470

Branding abolished, 464

Chaplain for, 458

Classification of, 450

Clothing of, 455

Crimes of, 448

Female, 467–8

Forçats classification, 449

—— Escape of, 466

Freedom of, 448

Irons on, 85, 463

Jewish, 455

Labour of, 463–4

Money from friends for, 83

Number of, 445

Politicals, 396

Provisions for, Cost of, 80

Scurvy among, 472

Sentences of, 450

Starostas among, 454

Work of, 446

—— Reputation of, unenviable, 473

—— Sea, Wiggins on the, 51, 768

—— Storehouse at, 455

Kasan, Founding of city, 57

—— government, Ethnography, 14

Tatars in the, 15

—— Heathen rites at, 13

—— Seminary at, 14

Kazakevich, Admiral, 500

Kaznakoff, Governor-General, 185

Khabarof’s expedition on the Amur 490

Khabarofka, Author’s dilemma, 574

—— Bank at, 578

—— Flowers at, 579

—— Military post at, 577

—— Musical instruments at, 552

—— Plusnin, merchant, 668

—— Post-office at, 578

—— Priest, Visit to, 673–7

—— Sable-skins at, Sale of, 577

—— Scriptures for, 667

—— Silver money at, 715

—— Temperature of, 579

—— Tichmeneff, General, and the port, 666

—— Tigers at, 689

—— Town, Situation of, 577

—— Trees at, 579

Khamenoff, General, and his footman, 273

Khanka Lake, Area of, 685

—— Depth of, 685

—— District of, 689

Climate of, 690

Medicinal plants of, 691

—— Fish of, 679

—— Winds on, 686

Kiakhta cathedral, 332

—— Commerce of, 324

—— Mongolian cavalry in, 326

—— Prison at, 327

Kirghese, Atkinson on the, 159

—— Costumes of the, 158

—— Eagles used by the, 189

—— goats, 26

—— Koumis, a beverage of the, 159

Kizi Lake, Area of, 585

Knout abolished, 85, 91

—— “A German Nobleman” on the, 380

—— Andreoli, M., on the, 91

—— De Lagny on the, 380

Knox, Mr., on the Shilka, 441

“K., O.” on number of exiles in 1876, 39

—— on “Russia and England,” 748

Koecher, Mr., at Troitzkosavsk, 323

Koriaks, Bread of, 642

—— Character of, 640

—— Deer of the, 642

—— Dialect of the, 640

—— Habitations of the, 641

—— Language of the, 647

—— Number of the, 639

—— Sick and Aged, Treatment of, 643

—— Wandering, 642

Koumis, Love of Kirghese for, 159

Kozloffskaya, Church at, 670

—— Houses at, 671

—— Priest at, 670

Krasnoiarsk, Asylum at, 229

—— Beggars at, 228

—— Catechist at, 229

—— Cathedral at, 230

—— Forest near, 220

—— Founding of, 112

—— Gold-mining district of, 212

—— Hospitality at, 232

—— Hotel at, 228

—— Houses at, 230

—— Lutheran chapel at, 228

—— Peacock, Dr., of, 212

—— Perisylnie prison at, 229

—— Province of, Scriptures for, 233

—— “Rotten Row” of, 231

—— Scriptures at, Depôt for sale of, 232

—— Town of, 227

Krasnorechinska, Bible of priest at, 195

Kruskopf, M. Emile, 540

Kureika River, Thames laid up in the, 103

Kvas at Tomsk, 224

Labour, Hours of, in mines, 423

—— of convicts compared with English, 662

—— of prisoners, 80, 114, 463–4, 658

Lagny, De, on prisoners, 380

Lakes of Sakhalin, 649

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 200

Lama, Conversion of a, 521

Lamas, 348

—— forbidden to take life, 372

—— respected by Buriats, 371

Lamasery for Buriats, 335–71

Land at Barnaul, Cost of, 158

Landscape scenery of Siberia, 189

Language of Aïnos, 650

—— of Chukchees, 647

—— of Goldi, 604

—— of Kamchatka, 637

—— of Koriaks, 647

—— of Manchu, 604

—— of Manyargs, 604

—— of Orochons, 604

—— of Russians, 441

—— of Yakutes, 305

Larsen, Mr., Introduction to, 265

Latham on the Turkish race, 206

—— on population of Russia and China, 206

—— on “Races of Russian Empire,” 57

Lavra monastery, 177–8

Law, Courts of, Russian and Siberian, 73

Lead, Scarcity of, 156

Leave-taking in Siberia, 353

Ledyard, John, Travels of, 283

Lemke on treatment of political exiles, 413

Lemmings, 644

Lena River, 19

—— as an outlet, 51

—— at Kachugskoe, Width of, 287

—— Boats on the, 285

—— Course of the, 286

—— Gold-mines, 211

—— Mammoth on the, 288

—— Merchandise on the, 285

—— Rhinoceros on the, 289

—— Travellers on the, 282

—— Tributaries of the, 288

Lena rounding Cape Cheliuskin, 292

Length of the Ussuri, 679

Lesseps, De, on Kamchatka, 631

—— Travels in Siberia, 282

Letters concerning Scripture distribution, 401–2

—— posted at Verchne-Udinsk, 354

Lexicon, Goldi, 604

Library at Irkutsk prison, 77

Lichatcheff’s Museum of Bulgarian Antiquities, 13

“Little” Russians as colonists, 32

Littoral, Russian, Number of Chinese in, 714

Liturgy of Russian Church, 166

Location of prisons, 69

Lochwitzky, M., Books to, 270

—— Interview with, 275

Lodging at post-houses, 141

Loss of pocket-book, 692

Love of Russians for tea, 534

Lutheran chapel at Krasnoiarsk, 228

—— church at Vladivostock, 717

Machine for praying to Buddha, 373

Madhouses exceptional in Primorsk, 618

Madness from drink at Tomsk, 229

Maimatchin, Buddhist temple, 344

—— Chinese dinner at, 345

Merchant at, 339

—— Clerks at, 340

—— Houses at, 339

—— Plays at, Licentious, 344

—— Population of, 337

—— Streets of, 339

Mala-Russia costume, 250

Malachite in copper-mine, 21

Maladies of the Primorsk, 571

Mammalia inhabiting Siberia, 188

Mammoth remains, 288

Manchu boats, 554–5

—— carts, 552

—— Cattle of the, 550

—— Dwellings of the, 549–50

—— guests, Reception of, 553

—— Howorth, Mr., on the, 548

—— language, 604

—— people, 207

—— shop, 553

—— temples, 549

Manchuria, Boundary of, 547

—— Costume of the men, 551

—— Ginseng of, 691

—— Southern, Deer in, 696

—— Town of, 550

Manchurian archers, 556

—— dead, Treatment of the, 554

—— fishing, Method of, 555

—— sable-skins, 696

Manufactories at Telma, 242

—— in Siberia, 241

Manyargs, Language of the, 604

—— on Middle Amur, 507

Manzas, Robberies by, 715

Mariinsk, Foundation of, 585

—— Scripture distribution at, 665

Market at Troitzkosavsk, 327

Markets at Irkutsk, 265

Markova, Scenery at, 684

Marriage compulsory on clergy, 524

—— customs of Chukchees, 643

of the Ostjaks, 126

—— rites of exiles, 35

Marriage services, 168

Martyrdom of a missionary, 612

Materialism in Siberia, 705

Mayor of Tiumen, 27

Mayors of Siberian towns, 716

Meals on board a steamer, 513

Meat at Irkutsk, Cheapness of, 265

—— in the Middle Primorsk, Cost of, 568

Medicine, Author’s stock of, 703

—— Plants for, 691

Medvedsky, School at, 150

Merchandise on the Lena, 285

Merchant, Chinese, 339

—— Russian, Specimen of a, 118

Merchants’ stores at Blagovestchensk, 526

Metals in the Za-Baikal, 378

——- Precious, 153, 211

Meteorological instruments, 147

—— observatory at Nertchinsk, 425

Meteorology of Blagovestchensk, 532

Metropolitan of Moscow, 10

Mexican dollars at Khabarofka, 715

Mica and gold at Yakutsk, 295

Middle Primorsk, Area of, 568

Mikhailofsky, Dancing at, 622

Miles travelled by Author, 24, 770

Military exemptions, 720

—— hospitals at Nikolaefsk, 617

—— post at Khabarofka, 577

Mills at Vladivostock, 709

Mine, Copper, Descent of a, 21, 138

—— Magnetic iron, 22

Mineral springs on the Shilka, 488

Minerals in Altai mountains, 104

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 240

Miners, Gold:

Beverages of, 224

Drunkenness of, 225

Extravagance of, 225

Food of, 419

Wages of, 223

—— Testimonies from, 418

—— Wiggins, Captain, on, 225

Mines at Kara:

Female prisoners at, 467–8

Gold-washing at, 477

Work, Leaving off, 464

—— at Nertchinsk, 30

Inaccessibility of, 412

—— at Nijni Tagilsk, 20

—— Coal, at Vladivostock, 678

—— Gold, 211

“Archangel Gabriel,” The, 218

Assaying, 223

Barracks at, 223

Districts of, 211–12

Hospital at, 223

Ingoda River, 212

Krasnoiarsk district, 212

Manager of, 226

Mohammedans at, 224

Nertcha River, 212

Olekma River, 212

Onon River, 212

Proprietors of, 226

Registration of, 217

Stables at, 223

Washing the gold, 222

Work, Hours of, 224

Working the metal, 221

—— in Altai district, 156

—— Manganese iron ore, 22

—— Private, 81

—— Punishment in the, 456

—— “Quicksilver,” 411

Nertchinsk, Baron R[osen] on, 409

—— Newcastle Daily Chronicle on, 409

—— None heard of at, 409

Sheffield Daily Telegraph on, 747

—— Silver:

Altai region, 411

Collins’s descent of, 412

Food at, 419

Formation of, 422

Labour, Hours of, 423

Rozguildieff, Cruelty of, 419

Women not working in, 417

—— Unhealthy fumes reported, 408

—— Work in, 82

Mining district, Principal centre of, 420

—— Gold, Season for, 462

Minister of the Interior, 9

“Miracle” at Troitzkosavsk, 330

Miraculous ikons, 331

Misadventures of tarantass travelling, 193

Misrepresentations of newspapers, 744–5

—— of various writers, 379–83, 413, 416–68, 744

Mission at Blagovestchensk, 518–19

—— converts, Charge of bribery, 676

—— Conversion of a lama, 521

—— English at Selenginsk, Story of the, 318–20

—— Offertories, 677

—— school at Bolan, 604

at Troitzka, 604

—— schools for Gilyaks, 604

—— to Aïnos, 650

—— to Burials, 357

Atkinson, Mr., on, 375

Hill, Mr., on, 375

—— to Gilyaks, 612–65

—— to Goldi, 671–4

—— to Japanese, 358

Missionaries, Pay of, 676

Missionary collections at church doors, 520

—— Martyrdom of a, 612

Missions: Results of Orthodox Missionary Society’s work, 520

Model Prison at Petersburg, 64

Mohammedan mosques in Tatar villages, 59

—— workmen at gold-mines, 224

Molokans, 386

—— Doctrines of the, 528

—— Manner of living, 529

Monasteries, 163

—— Clergy of, 176

—— Three kinds of, 177

Monastery for Buriat priests, 335

Monastic life at Yuryef, 178

Money allowance to prisoners at Irkutsk, 276

—— exchanged, 731

—— Prisoners’, 78

—— received by prisoners from friends, 83

—— Silver, Chinese demand, 715

—— taken by Author, 578

—— Tea used as an equivalent for, 343

Mongolian camels, Caravan route by, 351

—— cavalry in Kiakhta, 326

—— frontier, Birds on, 357

Herds of camels on, 357

—— race, Dr. Latham on the, 206

—— route, Travellers on the, 349

—— salutation, Method of, 356

—— sheep, 552

Morality at Vladivostock, 723

Moscow fund for exiles, 43

—— Metropolitans of, 10, 586

—— Stay at, 12

Mosques, Mohammedan, in Tatar villages, 59

Mosquitoes on Sungacha, 684, 710

Mountain of Odon Tchelon, 407

—— Volcanic, 562

Mountains, Altai range of, 19

—— of Sakhalin, 649

—— Sikhota-Alin, 561, 669

—— Ural, 17

Muravieff, Count, Governor of Eastern Siberia, 496

Murder at Nikolaefsk, 655

—— Trial for, 74

—— under influence of drink, 155

Murderers sent to Kara, 37

Museum at Irkutsk destroyed, 268

—— of Bulgarian Antiquities, 13

—— of Geology at Barnaul, 157

Music, Church, 165

Musical instruments at Khabarofka, 552

Mutton, Russian dislike of, 628

—— the staple feast of Buriats, 367

Narim, Population of, 123

Native belief in Shamanism, 405

Natives of Sakhalin, Food of, 650

Naval hospitals at Vladivostock, 617

Navigation, Early, of Siberia, 767

—— of Kara Sea by Wiggins, 768

Needs of the Russian Church, 182

Nertcha, Gold-mines on the, 212

Nertchinsk, Climate of, 425

Atkinson, Mr., on, 425

—— Cochrane’s visit to, 412

—— Gems in neighbourhood, 407

—— Meteorological observatory at, 425

—— Mines, Mr. Collins’s visit to, 412–17

Inaccessibility of, 412

—— Mining region of, 30

—— Prison at, 70

—— Prisoners’ work at, 446

—— “Quicksilver”-mines:

Baron R[osen] on, 409

None heard of at, 409

—— Silver-mines at, 411

—— Situation of, 430

—— Temperature of, 426

—— Tobacco cultivation at, 425

—— Treaties at, 324, 428

—— Vegetation at, 426

Newcastle Daily Chronicle on “Quicksilver”-mines, 409

Newspapers, English:

Account of exiles’ passage in, 45

Misrepresentations of, 744

Nihilists, “Black,” 34

—— Opinions concerning, 328

—— Transport, Mode of, 46

Nijni Novgorod, Fair at, 12

Steamboat to Perm, 16

Transport of exiles to, 43

—— Tagilsk, Copper-mine at, 138

Mines and works at, 20

—— Udinsk, Awaking a Russian at, 241

Prison at, 241

Nikolaefsk, Amusements at, 621

—— Andreyeff, M., of, 615

—— Author’s religious services at, 725

—— Barracks at, 620

—— Birching criminals at, 89

—— Buildings at, 625

—— Church at, 624

—— Climate of, 563

—— Dinner at, 619

—— Emery, Mr. Enoch, of, 614

—— English books at, 629

—— Étape prison at, 616

—— Fish-trade of, 628

—— Flour sold at, 569

—— Foundation of, 615

—— Hospital at, 617

Government grant to, 617

Scriptures for, 617–66

—— Murder at, 655

—— Officers’ club at, 624

—— Plète used at, 616

—— Police-station at, 624

—— Population of, 624

—— Prison, 615

—— Prisoners’ food at, 79

Preference for, 277

—— Rise of, 498

—— Salmon at, Cost of, 628

—— Scripture distribution at, 666

—— Service at, 619

—— Town, Aspect of, 624

—— Trade of, 625

—— Wages at, 590

Nikon, Patriarch, Revision of Church books by, 758

Ninagai tribe of Orochons, 507

Nordenskiöld, Discoveries of, 761

—— Explorations of, 51, 107, 292

North China Herald on Sakhalin prisoners, 652–8

North-east passage to China attempted, 766

Novgorod, Transport of exiles to, 43

Nunneries of the Siberian Church, 163–79

Obdorsk, School at, 103, 150

Obi as an outlet for commerce, 51

—— Cattley, O., on trade, 108, 761

—— Commercial value of the, 103

—— district, Tundras of the, 105

—— Fisheries of the, 123

—— gulf, Capt. Wiggins in the, 106

—— Length of the, 19

—— Ostjaks on the, 124

—— Steamers on the, 29

—— Temperature of the, 50

—— Tract distribution on the, 184

Object of Author’s travel, 1

Oblasts of Siberia, 50

Obos of the Buriats, 405

Observance of the Sabbath by prisoners, 422–55

Observatory at Nertchinsk, 425

Occupation of Buriats, 369

—— of Gilyaks, 598

Odon Tchelon, Mountain of, 407

Offences by prisoners, 84

Offertories for Missions, 677

Office of the Holy Unction, 169–70

Officers’ club at Nikolaefsk, 624

—— in the army, Pay of, 668

—— of the Djiguitt, 738

—— of Dui prison, 660

—— of Siberian fleet, Pay of, 734

Oil, Holy, in Church service, 169

Okhotsk, Sea of, Whales in the, 631

Olekma gold-mines, 212

—— Sables of, 295

Omsk, Prison at, 70

—— School at, 150

Onkelon people, The, 647

Onon River, 482

—— Gold-mines on the, 212

Onon steamboat, On board the, 669

Orders in Russian Church, 166

—— Lack of candidates for, 171

Ordinations in Russian Church, 166

Orenburg shawls, 26

—— Souvenirs from villages, 26

Orochons as hunters, 509

—— Horses of, 508

—— in Sakhalin, 649

—— Language of the, 604

—— Population of tribes, 507

—— Tents of, 509

—— Women’s hair, 508

Orthodox Missionary Society’s work, 520

Ostjaks and Tunguses, Resemblance between, 207

—— as fishermen, 123

—— Bows and arrows of the, 126

—— Honesty of, 102

—— Marriage customs of the, 126

—— on the Obi, 124

—— Wiggins, Capt., and the, 103

—— Yourts of the, 124

Ostrog prison, An, 69

Outdoor amusements of the Russians, 621

Pamphlets for distribution, 53

“Paris, Member for,” Author of, on Prisons, 380

—— on the mines, 413–62

—— on women miners, 468

Parishioners of the Russian Church, 163

Pashkof on the Amur, Expedition of, 492

Pashkova, Deserted village at, 671

Pay-day at a gold-mine, 225

—— of Cossacks, 682

Peace, Judges of the, 73

Peacock, Dr., on the current of the Yenesei, 197

—— visiting the gold-mine, 212

Peasantry, Russian—how they live, 698

Peasants on the River Zeya, 531

Penal colony at Kara, 70

—— at Vladivostock, 726

Penance in the Greek Church, 169

Pericladnoi travelling, 135

Perisylnie prison at Krasnoiarsk, 229

—— prisons, 44, 69

Perm, Fire at, 16

—— to Ekaterineburg by rail, 17

—— Transport of exiles to, 43

Petchka at Alexandreffsky, 246

Petersburg, Arrival at, 9

—— English suspected at, 329

—— Excitement at, 328

—— Prisoners, Places of worship for, 65

—— Prisons of, 2

—— Sermons in, Number, 460

—— to Moscow by rail, 25

Petropavlovsk, 638

Petrovski, State prison at, 387

Photograph of Goldi Christians, 674

Photography at Alexandreffsky, 250

—— by Kara priest, 458

—— Russian, 434

Physiognomy of Buriats, 364

—— of Goldi, 672

Picture-worship, 164, 331

Pigs, Siberian, 188

Plantations of ginseng, 566

Plants, Herbaceous, in Lower Primorsk, 566

—— Medicinal, of Lake Khanka district, 691

Plays, at Maimatchin, 344

Pleasure-garden, Vladivostock, 717

Plète at Chita, 94

—— at Dui, 653

—— at Kara, 464

—— at Nikolaefsk, 616

—— Description of the, 90

—— Exiles receiving the, 35

—— used at three places only, 94

Plusnin, M., Business with, 668

Pocket-book, Loss of, 692

Podkeedovate, a Siberian custom, 353

Podorojna, A Crown, 143, 314

—— permit for posting, 134

Police-master at Kara, 485

—— of Siberian towns, 269

—— station at Nikolaefsk, 615–24

Political divisions in Siberia, 50

—— exiles:

Contemporary Review, 413

Lemke on treatment of, 413

Whyte on number of, 394

—— prisoners and Dostoyeffsky’s “Buried Alive,” 384

Author of “Member for Paris” on, 380

Polygamy among Gilyaks, 601

—— among Goldi, 601

Poor of Vladivostock, 717

—— house at Barnaul, 153

Popoftschins, Sect of, 759

Population of Aigun, 556

—— of Amur province, 543

—— of Upper Amur on Chinese bank, 506

—— of Barnaul, 152

—— of Buriats, 369

—— of China, 206

—— of Chita, 361

—— of Gilyak country, 594

—— of Maimatchin, 337

—— of Narim, 123

—— of Nikolaefsk, 624

—— of Orochons, 507

—— of Russia, 206

—— of Russia in Asia, 20

—— of Sakhalin, 649

—— of Siberia, Russian and aboriginal, 52

—— of Sophiisk, 585

—— of Surgut, 123

—— of the Za-Baikal province, 400

—— of Tiumen, 27

—— of Tomsk, 127

—— of Verchne-Udinsk, 317

—— of Vladivostock, 712

—— of Yakutsk, 294

—— of Yeneseisk, 203

Possessions of Buriats, 369

Post, Russian and Chinese, 352

—— office at Khabarofka, 578

Postal communication, 52, 578

—— letter, A, 143

Posting—An “equipage,” 439

—— “Book for complaints,” 55

—— Distances between verst-posts, 436

—— in Siberia, 134

—— Official, 437

—— Post-houses, lodging at, 141

Tariff of, 141

—— Travelling, Manner of, 135

—— Wrong road, The, 144

Potatoes at Vladivostock, 690

Poyarkof’s expedition on the Amur, 490

Prayers, A Tatar at, 61

Praying-machine, Buddhist, 373

Preaching, Lack of, 459

Precious stones in neighbourhood of Nertchinsk, 407

Presents to exiles, 42

Price of meals on a steamer, 513

—— of tea in Russia, 325

Priest at Khabarofka, Visit to, 673–7

—— at Kozloffskaya, 670

—— at Krasnorechinska, Bible of, 195

—— at Vladivostock, 730

—— Journal of a, 174

Priests at Kansk, 236

—— Seminary for training, 523

—— Social disadvantages of, 173

—— Stipend of, 172

—— Treatise on the Duty of, 181–2

Primorsk, or Sea-coast province, 561

—— Bays in the, 562

—— Cattle in the, 697

—— Divisions of province, 567

—— Fauna of the, 565

—— Fish in the, Price of, 569

—— Flora of the, 565

—— Gold-washing in the, 583

—— Health of inhabitants, 571

—— Imports of, 570

—— Inhabitants of the, 567

—— Lower:

Climate of, 564

Herbaceous plants in, 566

Populated by Ussuri Cossacks, 568

—— Madhouses exceptional in, 618

—— Maladies of the, 571

—— Middle:

Area of, 568

Meat, Cost of, 568

—— Rivers in the, 562

—— Schools, Number of, 723

—— Scriptures distributed in, 703

—— Soldiers in the, 667

—— Taxes in the, 571

—— Trees in the, 566

—— Tribes in the, Number of, 567

—— Vaccination in the, 571

—— Volcanic mountains in the, 562

Prison affairs at Tomsk, 128

—— Ameliorating influence in, 77

—— at Åbo, 63

—— at Alexandreffsky, 70, 245

Amusements at, 83

Books for, 249

Director of, 244

Hospital at, 248

—— at Biisk, 133

—— at Blagovestchensk, 525

—— at Chita, 70

The “Black-cart” at, 362

—— at Dui, Officers of, 660

—— at Irkutsk:

Director’s pay, 277

Inmates of, 275

Library, 77

—— at Kansk, 235

—— at Kara, 70

—— at Kiakhta, 327

—— at Krasnoiarsk, 229

—— at Nijni Udinsk, 241

—— at Nikolaefsk, 615–16

—— at Omsk, 70

—— at Petrovski, 389

—— at Sakhalin, 70

—— at Schlüsselburg, 68

—— at Troitzkosavsk, 327

—— at Verchne-Udinsk, 317

—— at Wiborg, 63

—— Books in, 113

—— chaplains, 663

—— on board the Djiguitt, 739

—— ethnography, 246

—— food compared with English prison diet, 79

—— furniture, 71

—— gardening, 248

—— labour compared with English, 662

—— officials, Bribery of, 277

—— Ostrog, An, 69

—— Petersburg Model, 64

Bath-room in, 66

Chapel in, 67

Contraband articles in, 67

Dark cells in, 66

—— Russian, Account of a, 380

—— school at Tomsk, 128

—— Smuggling spirits into, 67, 317

—— Starostas, 454

—— statistics, 69

—— storehouse at Kara, 455

—— Tragedy in, 154

—— Travaux forcés, 113

—— work:

Cigarette-paper making, 247

Lack of, 247

Prisoners, Aged, 470

—— Asylum for children of, 77

—— Authors on, 379–88-94

—— Bail, 74

—— Barge, the Irtish, 120

—— Birching of, 89, 473

—— Books for, 276–7

—— Branding of, 464

—— Bribery by, 39

—— buying Scriptures, 121

—— Card-playing among, 388, 656

—— cells, 469, 525

—— chains, 154

—— changing destinations and names, 75

—— Chaplain for, 458

—— children, School for, 278

—— Classification of, 72, 450

—— Clothing of, 80, 455, 728

—— complaint, Causes of, 393

—— Courts, Judges, and modes of trial, 73

—— Crimes of, 448

—— descriptions taken, 76

—— Escape of, 465

—— Fasting of, 79

—— Female, 467–8

—— Flogging of, 654

Goryantchikoff on, 654

—— Food, 77–9, 82, 276, 453, 656

Cost of, 80

Difficulty in procuring, 659

Horseflesh reported as, 746

—— Forçats, 449–66

—— in irons, 85, 248, 421–63

—— in Yakutsk government, 37

—— Insubordination of, 393

—— Labour of, 80, 114, 463–4, 658

—— Money allowance to, 276

Received from friends, 83

—— Number at Alexandreffsky, 246

At Kara, 445

At Sakhalin, 652–3

—— offences, 84

—— Polish, 122, 390

—— Political, 396

Baron R[osen] on, 387

Daily Telegraph on number of, 396

De Lagny on, 380

Deported to Trans-Baikal province, 377

Destination of, 37

Gaulois on number of, 396

Lemke on, 413

Living to be earned, 398

Lodging of, 395

Number of, 394

—— in 1879, 396

Position of, 398

Present condition of, 390

Tiumen, Passing through, 395

—— preference for Nikolaefsk, 277

—— Punishment of, 84, 129, 421–3

—— Reformation doubtful, 664

—— Religious professions of, 72

—— Russian, Condition of, 64

English and, Comparison between numbers of, 478

—— Sabbath, Observance of, 455

—— Scurvy among, 472

—— seeing friends, 246

—— Sentences of, 450

—— shipyard at Sivakoff, 420

At Stretinsk, 420

—— Starostas among, 454

—— Statistics concerning, 72

—— Sundays, Refusal to work, 422

—— ticket of indictment, 75

—— to Finnish colonies, 131

—— Treatment of, 728

—— Wives of, 388

—— work, 82, 446

—— Worship, Places of, 65

—— writing to friends, 84, 236

Prisons, Atmosphere of, 381

—— Author’s interest in, 1

Opinion on, 662

—— at Dui, 652

—— at Nertchinsk, 7

—— at Tobolsk, 70, 82

—— at Uleaborg, 41

—— Books for Za-Baikal, 400

—— Building of, 70

—— Étape, 44, 69, 667

Soldiers employed for, 667

—— Fleas and vermin in, 363

—— Furniture of, 71

—— Kinds of, 68

—— Local committees in connection with, 77

—— Location of, 69

—— Perisylnie, 44, 69

—— Petersburg, Visitation of, 2

—— Russian and Finnish, 63

Private mines, 81

Privileges to free colonists, 698

Procession at fire of Irkutsk, 260

Processions, Church, 174

“Prodigal Son” for distribution, 7

—— Hammering up the, 190, 238

Profession of an advocate, 582

Proprietors of gold-mines, 226

Protestant churches in Siberia, 726

Protestants in Siberia, 726

Protodiakonoff of Khabarofka, 673

Province, Governor of a, 51

Provisions aboard steamboats, 512

—— at Barnaul, Cost of, 158

—— at Blagovestchensk, Cost, 527

—— at Irkutsk, 265

—— at Juchova, Price of, 120

—— at Kara, Cost of, 80

—— at Surgut, Price of, 120

—— at Tobolsk, Cost of, 105

Punishment in the mines, 456

—— of prisoners, 84, 421

Quass (or kvas) at Tomsk, 224

—— for miners, 224

“Quicksilver”-mines, 409

—— Baron R[osen] on, 409

—— Eden, Mr., on, 410

—— Newcastle Daily Chronicle on, 409

—— Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 747

—— Supposed deadly fumes, 412

“Races of Russian Empire,” by Dr. Latham, 57

Railway, A new line of, 17

—— journey of 2,670 miles, 24

—— Petersburg to Moscow by, 25

—— transport of exiles, 42

Railways in Russia, 25

Rain in the Primorsk, 565

Rapids of Angara River, 311

Rasdolnoi, Cockroaches at, 702

Raskolnik exiles, 32

Rates for telegrams in Siberia, 522

Ravenstein on the Amur, 581

Réclus, M., “Géographie Universelle” of, 631

—— on the first exiles, 31

—— on the Yurak-Samoyedes, 103

Reformation of Russian Church, 753

Registers, Church, 174

Registration of gold-mines, 217

“Reign of Terror” described in Daily Telegraph, 45

Reindeer, Horns of, 209

—— riding, 306

—— taken in chase, 209

—— Yakutes’ use, in travelling, 306

Release of exile, 38

Religion of Buriats, 370

—— of Daurians, 549

—— of Gilyaks, 609

—— of prisoners, 72

—— of sailors, 741

Religious scruples of exiles respected, 460

—— services of Author at Vladivostock, 725

—— Tract Society in Russia, 705

Revision of Church books by the Patriarch Nikon, 758

Rhinoceros on the Lena, 289

Riches of the Demidoffs, 23

Riding in the taiga, 212

Ritual of Russian Church, 166

Rivers of Sakhalin, 649

—— in the Primorsk, 562

Roads of Irkutsk, 139

—— of Siberia, 51–2

—— in Yeneseisk, 139

Rob Roy cuisine, 145

Robberies by the Manzas, 715

Rooms in Siberian houses, 192

Rooski Rabotchi for distribution, 7

—— Subscribers to, 184

Rosaries, Russian and Roman, 61

R[osen], Baron, on “quicksilver”-mines, 409

—— on political prisoners, 387

—— on situation of Chita, 425

“Rotten Row” of Krasnoiarsk, 231

Roumanian grant of Bible Soc., 3

Route of exiles viâ Suez Canal, 44

—— viâ the Shilka, 52

Routes across Siberia, 281

Rozguildieff, Cruelty of, 419

Ruins of Irkutsk after the fire, 267

Runaway exiles, Capture of, 40

—— prisoners at Kara, 465

Ruschkova, Finns at, 5

Russ, British Workman in, 7

Russia and China, Boundary, 487

Difficulties between, 501

Ethnography of, 206

Treaties between, 323

—— Appeal by Amur tribes for Chinese help against, 493

—— Asiatic boundary line, 49

—— Author’s previous tours in, 2

—— Chinese exports into, 341

—— Church bells of, 332

—— Early Chinese frontier, 323, 487

—— Education in, Cost of, 719

Subjects of study, 720

—— Ethnography of, 206

—— in Asia:

Area of, 18

Ethnography of, 19, 52

Population of, 20

—— Population of, 206

—— Railways in, 25

—— Tea in, Price of, 325

Russian annexation of Siberia, 109

—— cemeteries, 152

—— Church:

Bible, The, and, 181

Burial services, 152

Foundation of the, 751

Reformation of the, 753

Rural deaneries of the, 163

Schisms of the, 756

Transition of the, 752

—— conquests on the Amur, 489

—— conscription, Method of, 736

—— courts of law, 73

—— custom of addressing friends, 406, 620

—— dislike of mutton, 628

—— drunkenness compared with English, 544

—— gold, 211

—— Greek, and English Church, Distinctions between, 162

—— Judges, 73

—— Littoral, Number of Chinese in, 714

—— peasantry—How they live, 698

—— photography, 434

—— politicians, 748

—— prison, Account of a, 380

—— prisoners, Condition of, 64

—— salutation, Mode of, 406

—— Scriptures printed for Bible Society, 8

—— sea-trading adventure, 761

—— trade, Effects of gambling, 627

Russians afloat, 733

—— Amusements of, 621

—— at home, 620

—— Gambling of, 119

—— “Little,” as colonists, 32

—— Superstitions of the, 620

—— Sympathy of, for Decembrists, 32, 378

Russo-Chinese commerce, Kiakhta as a centre of, 324

Sabbath, Prisoners’ observance of, 422–55

Sables of Olekma, 295

—— of Vitim, 295

—— skins of Manchuria, 696

Khabarofka, Sale at, 578, 696

Sacrament of Penance, 169

—— of Unction, 169

Sacred pictures as objects of worship, 331

Sailors of Siberian fleet:

Clothing of, 736

Food of, 736

Pay of, 734

Religion of, 741

Sakhalin: Aïnos, 650

—— Card-playing at, 656

—— Coal at, 651

—— Fauna of, 649

—— Flora of, 649

—— Food of natives, 650

—— Island of, 648

—— Lakes of, 649

—— Mountains of, 649

—— Orochons in, 649

—— Population of, 649

—— Prisoners at, Labour of, 658

North China Herald on, 652–8

Number of, 652–3

—— Rivers of, 649

—— Trade in trepangs, 650

—— Ula-Hotun, Town of, 550

—— Vagrants’ deportation to, 37

Salaries of telegraph clerks, 724

Salary of Commandant of Kara prison, 461

Salmon at Nikolaefsk, Cost of, 628

Salt-works at Telma, 243

Salutation by Buriats, 356

—— Chinese method of, 356

—— Russian mode of, 406

Salvage from Irkutsk fire, 258

Samovar required and not required, 145, 221

Samoyedes, Country of, 98

—— Dress of the, 99

—— Honesty of the, 102

—— Howorth, Mr., on the, 98

—— Idols of the, 103

—— Seebohm on the, 98

—— Yurak, Réclus on the, 103

Scenery of Bureya mountains, 537

—— of the Lower Amur, 580

—— of the Middle Amur, 535

—— of the Shilka River, 483

—— of the Sungacha River, 684

Schisms of Russian Church, 756

Schlüsselburg prison, 68

School at Kansk, 237

—— at Medvedsky, 150

—— at Obdorsk, 103, 150

—— at Omsk, 150

—— at Tiumen, 150

—— at Tobolsk, 150

—— at Tomsk, 130

—— for Gilyaks, 604

—— for prisoners’ children at Irkutsk, 278

Schools at Vladivostock, 719–21-23

—— in the Primorsk, Number, 723

—— Inspection of, 11, 278

—— Teachers’ salaries, 722

—— Training institutions for masters, 278

Scientific explorations in Siberia, 768

Scoptsi as a fanatical sect, 758

—— Doctrine of the, 205

—— village of dissent, 205

Scorbutus in Alexandreffsky hospital, 249

Scripture depôt at Krasnoiarsk, 232

—— distribution at Archangel, 733

at Mariinsk, 665

at Nikolaefsk, 666

at Sophiisk, 665

at Tiumen, 184

at Tomsk, 185

at Tyr, 665

by Author, 3, 703

Curiosity of fellow-passengers, 539

in Akmolinsk, 186

in Semipolatinsk, 186

in the Primorsk, 703

Letters concerning, 401, 403

on Upper Amur, 538

Total up to Tomsk, 186

Scriptures on steamboat, 668

—— for Aniva Bay, 660

—— for distribution on Siberian tour, 7

—— for Dui, 660

—— for Khabarofka, 667

—— for Krasnoiarsk province, 233

—— for Nikolaefsk hospital, 617

—— for Verchne-Udinsk, 318

—— in Russ, printed for Society, 8

—— purchased by prisoners, 121

—— Reception of, in Siberia, 185

—— taken for distribution, 11

—— Turkish, read by Tatars, 61

—— Wish of Bible Soc. for new translations, 673

Scurvy among prisoners, 472

Sea-borne exiles, 45

—— coast province (see Primorsk)

—— communication with Europe, 107

—— of Okhotsk, 631

Whales in the, 631

—— trading adventures of the Russians, 761

Seamen, Clothing of, 737

Season for gold-mining, 462

Sect of Dukhobortsi, 760

Sects of Bezpopoftschins, 759

Seebohm on ornithology of Yenesei, 763

—— on the birds of the Yeneseisk province, 202

—— on the Samoyedes, 98

—— on the Yenesei, 198

—— with Capt. Wiggins, 763

Selenginsk, English mission at, 318

Seminary at Kasan, 14

Semipolatinsk, Distribution of tracts at, 186

—— Finsch, Dr., in, 159

Senate a Court of Appeal, 73

Sentences of exiles, 35

—— of prisoners at Kara, 450

Serfdom, A remnant of, 272

Serfs, Former condition of, 23

—— Riches of the Demidoffs, 23

Sermons, 460, 671

—— in Petersburg, yearly, 460

Servants, Exiles as, 730

—— wages at Vladivostock, 570

Service, Church, 165–6

—— at Nikolaefsk, 619

—— on board the Djiguitt, 740

Services, Author’s religious, 701, 709–25

—— of the Russian Church for Buriats, 152

Settlement of peasants on the Zeya, 531

Shaman Buriats, Conversion of, 374

—— Costume of a, 158

Shamanism, Belief in, 405

—— of the Daurians, 549

—— of the Gilyaks, 609

—— “Priest’s Stone,” The, 311

—— Victims of, 311

Shan-Alin mountains, 669

Shawls, Orenburg, 26

Sheep, Mongolian, 552

—— of the Yeneseisk province, 204

—— Russian dislike of mutton, 628

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Extraordinary statement of, 746

—— on “quicksilver”-mines, 747

Shilka—Boundary of Russia and China, 487

—— Cliffs on the, 483

—— Collins’s voyage down the, 441

—— Fair on the, 488

—— Formation of the river, 482

—— Granite rocks on the, 487

—— Knox, Mr., on the, 441

—— Mineral springs, 488

—— Scenery on the, 483

—— Shipyards on the, 420

—— Siberian route viâ the, 52

—— Territory, Discovery of, 492

Occupation of, 492

Shipyard at Sivakoff, 420

—— employment for prisoners, 420

Shoeing horses, Method of, 232

Shologon tribe of the Orochons, 507

Shop of a Manchu tradesman, 553

Shrine of Innokente at Irkutsk, 274

Siberia—Amur route, 52

—— Animals, Wild, 697

—— Bed a novelty, 444

—— Bibliography of, 772

—— Books on, 629

—— Boundaries of, 49

—— Caravan transport in, 354

—— Carriage, Cost of, 105, 746

—— Cossack conquerors of, 281

—— Eastern: Number of exile colonists, 451

—— Explorations of, 766

—— Exports from, 105, 341

—— Finnish colonies in, 131

—— Fish pie a luxury, 432

—— Furs exported from, 295

—— “Governments” in, 50

—— Journeys of previous travellers, 282

—— Landscape scenery of, 189

—— Manufactories of, 241

—— Materialism in, 705

—— Navigation, Early, 767

—— Nordenskiöld, Discoveries, 761

—— North-east, Flora of, 645

—— Political divisions of, 50

—— Population of, 52

—— Prison-life in, Misrepresentations of, 379–83, 413–16, 468, 744

—— Prisoners in, Trial of, 73

—— Protestants in, Number of, 726

—— “Quicksilver”-mines of, 409

—— Roads of, 52

—— Routes across, 281

—— Russian annexation of, 109

—— Scientific explorations in, 768

—— Sea communication with Europe, 107

—— Steamboat passengers in, 118

—— Temperature of, 50

—— Towns of, 192

—— Western and Eastern, 51, 188

—— Wiggins, Discoveries of, 761

Siberian butter, 188

—— cathedrals, 165

—— cheese-making, 188

—— Church:

Knowledge, Sources of, 161

Nunneries of, 163–79

—— churches, 163, 332

—— courts of law, 73

—— ferry, 139

—— fleet, 734

—— fruit, 149

—— horses, 123

—— hospitality, 194, 353, 431

—— hospitals, Impressions of, 618

—— hotel-dining, 431

—— houses, 190–2

—— leave-taking: the podkeedovate, 353

—— posting, 134

—— prison, Building of, 70

—— prisoners, Books on, 379

—— rooms, 192

—— sailors, 741

—— State bank, 578

—— tour, Scriptures for distribution on, 7

—— village, Description of a, 190

Sibir, Fortress of, 110

Sick, Visitation of the, 169

—— and aged among the Koriaks: Treatment of the, 643

Sidoroff, M.K., and Russian sea-trading adventure, 761

Sieges of Albazin, 515

Sikhota-Alin range of mountains, 561, 669

Silovanoff, Scoptsi village at, 205

Silver found in the Za-Baikal, 378

—— mine, Collins’s descent, 412

—— mines at Nertchinsk, 411

Cruelty of Rozguildieff, 419

Food at, 419

Formation of, 422

Labour, Hours of, 423

of Altai region, 411

Women not working in, 417

—— money at Khabarofka, 715

Chinese demand for, 715

—— smelting at Barnaul, 156

Singing in cathedrals, 165

Situation of Khabarofka town, 577

—— of Tiumen, 27

—— of Vladivostock, 711

Sivakoff, Punishment at, 421

—— Shipyard at, 420

Skaka, an outdoor game, 621

Sledging in Kamchatka, 637

Sleeping in a tarantass, 187

Smelting of iron by Yakutes, 304

Smuggling spirits into prison, 67, 317

Sokoloff, Mr., Inspector of schools, 278

Soldiers, Educated, exempt from military service, 720

—— in East Siberia, Number of, 667

—— in the Primorsk, Number of, 667

—— Officers, Pay of, 668

Sophiisk, Amur at, Width of, 585

—— Population of, 585

—— Scripture distribution at, 665

“Souls” in Russia, 23

Souvenirs from Orenburg, 26

—— from Yakutsk, 303

Spectacle of Irkutsk fire, 260

Speed of the Djiguitt, 735

Stables at gold-mine, 223

Stallybrass, Mr., and the Selenginsk mission, 320

Starosta of a prison, 454

—— of a village, 51

Staroveri, Sect of the, 759

State prison at Petrovski, 387

Statistics of criminals, 72

—— of prisoners in Siberia, 69

—— of Russo-Chinese trade, 714

Stauropegia monastery, 177–8

Steamer aground on the Amur, 511

Steamers, Arrival of, uncertain, 117

—— Carriage of Scriptures, 668

—— Departure of, uncertain, 117

—— Exiles conveyed by, 42

Conveyance viâ Suez, 14

—— Journeys on board, 16, 118–19, 314, 505–11, 669, 708–43

—— Meals on board, 513

—— on the Kama, 29

—— on the Obi, 29

—— on the Yenesei, 203

—— Passengers on board, 118

—— Provisions on board, 512

Stepanof’s expedition on the Amur, 491

Stipend of priests, 172

Stones, Precious, in neighbourhood of Nertchinsk, 407

Storehouse at Middle Kara, 455

Storms on Lake Baikal, 312

“Story of Elizabeth,” by Madame de Cottin, 379–83

—— of English mission at Selenginsk, 320

Strahlenberg on the Yakutes, 305

—— Travels of, in Siberia, 282

Streets and houses of Maimatchin, 339

Stretinsk, Shipyard at, 420

—— Town of, 438

Students’ education at Blagovestchensk, 523

Subbotniki, Sect of, 451

Subscribers to the Rooski Rabotchi, 184

Suez Canal route for exiles, 44

Suifun River, Width of the, 708

Suifun steamer, Travelling on board the, 708

Sundays, Refusal of prisoners to work on, 422

Sungacha River, Fish of the, 679

—— Mosquitoes on the, 684