Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life - Thomas Wallace Knox

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to make an electric connection between Europe and the United States by way of Asia and Bering's Straits. In the service of the Russo-American Telegraph Company, it may not be improper to state that the author's official duties were so few, and his pleasures so numerous, as to leave the kindest recollections of the many persons connected with the enterprise.

      Portions of this book have appeared in Harper's, Putnam's, The Atlantic, The Galaxy, and the Overland Monthlies, and in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. They have been received with such favor as to encourage their reproduction wherever they could be introduced in the narrative of the journey. The largest part of the book has been written from a carefully recorded journal, and is now in print for the first time. The illustrations have been made from photographs and pencil sketches, and in all cases great care has been exercised to represent correctly the costumes of the country. To Frederick Whymper, Esq., artist of the Telegraph Expedition, and to August Hoffman, (Photographer,) of Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, the author is specially indebted.

      The orthography of geographical names is after the Russian model. The author hopes it will not be difficult to convince his countrymen that the shortest form of spelling is the best, especially when it represents the pronunciation more accurately than does the old method. A frontier justice once remarked, when a lawyer ridiculed his way of writing ordinary words, that a man was not properly educated who could spell a word in only one way. On the same broad principle I will not quarrel with those who insist upon retaining an extra letter in Bering and Ohotsk and two superfluous letters in Kamchatka.

      Among those not mentioned in the volume, thanks are due to Frederick Macrellish, Esq., of San Francisco, Hon. F.F. Low of Sacramento, Alfred Whymper, Esq., of London, and the many gentlemen connected with the Telegraph Expedition. There are dozens and hundreds of individuals in Siberia and elsewhere, of all grades and conditions in life, who have placed me under numberless obligations. Wherever I traveled the most uniform courtesy was shown me, and though conscious that few of those dozens and hundreds will ever read these lines, I should consider myself ungrateful did I fail to acknowledge their kindness to a wandering American.

      T.W.K.

      ASTOR HOUSE, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1870.

      1. FRONTISPIECE, THE AUTHOR IN SIBERIAN COSTUME

      2. CHARACTER DEVELOPED

      3. ASPINWALL TO PANAMA

      4. SLIGHTLY MONOTONOUS

      5. MONTGOMERY STREET IN HOLIDAY DRESS

      6. SAN FRANCISCO, 1848

      7. CHINESE DINNER

      8. OVER SIX FEET

      9. STEAMSHIP WRIGHT IN A STORM

      10. A SEA SICK BOOBY

      11. WRECK OF THE SHIP CANTON

      12. ALEUTIANS CATCHING WHALES

      13. BREACH OF ETIQUETTE

      14. UNEXPECTED HONORS

      15. RUSSIAN MARRIAGE

      16. RUSSIAN POPE AT HOME

      17. A SCALY BRIDGE

      18. RUSSIAN TEA SERVICE

      19. CHANGE FOR A DOLLAR

      20. COW AND BEAR

      21. A KAMCHATKA TEAM

      22. REPULSE OF THE ASSAILANTS

      23. VIEW OF SITKA

      24. PLENTY OF TIME

      25. RUSSIAN OFFICERS AT MESS

      26. ASCENDING THE BAY

      27. TAKING THE CENSUS

      28. LIGHT-HOUSE AT GHIJIGA

      29. TOWED BY DOGS

      30. KORIAK YOURT

      31. DISCHARGING A DECK LOAD

      32. REINDEER RIDE

      33. TAIL PIECE, REINDEER

      34. WAGON RIDE WITH DOGS

      35. YEARLY MAIL

      36. DOGS FISHING

      37. TEACHINGS OF EXPERIENCE

      38. BOAT LOAD OF SALMON

      39. AN EFFECTIVE PROTEST

      40. NOTHING BUT BONES

      41. TAIL PIECE—NATIVE WOMAN

      42. SEEING OFF

      43. LIFE ON THE AMOOR

      44. A GILYAK VILLAGE

      45. ABOUT FULL

      46. TAIL PIECE—A TURN OUT

      47. ON THE AMOOR

      48. CASH ACCOUNT

      49. WOODING UP

      50. BEAR IN PROCESSION

      51. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE

      52. MANJOUR MERCHANT

      53. GILYAK MAN

      54. GILYAK WOMAN

      55. PEASANTS BY MOONLIGHT

      56. TAIL PIECE—THE NET

      57. TEN MILES AN HOUR

      58. GOLDEE HOUSE AT NIGHT

      59. THE HYPOCONDRIAC

      60. "NOT FOR JOE"

      61. TAIL PIECE—SCENE ON THE RIVER

      62. RECEPTION AT PETROVSKY

      63. ARMED AND EQUIPPED

      64. GENERAL ACTIVITY

      65. TAIL PIECE—FLASK

      66. MANJOUR BOAT

      67. A PRIVATE TEMPLE

      68. FISHING IMPLEMENTS

      69. CHINESE FAMILY PICTURE

      70. MANJOUR TRAVELING CARRIAGE

      71. TAIL PIECE—TOWARDS THE SUN

      72. THE AMMUNITION WAGON

      73. FINISHING TOUCH

      74. EMIGRANTS ON THE AMOOR

      75. SA-GA-YAN CLIFF

      76. RIFLE SHOOTING

      77. TAIL PIECE—GAME

      78. PREPARING FOR WINTER

      79. TAIL PIECE

      80. STRATENSK, EASTERN SIBERIA

      81. A SIBERIAN TARANTASS

      82. TAIL PIECE

      83. FAVORITE BED

      84. CONCENTRATED ENERGIES

      85. PRISONERS AT CHETAH

      86. ON THE HILLS NEAR CHETAH

      87. BOURIAT YOURTS

      88. A MONGOL BELL

      89. A MONGOL BELLE

      90. CATCHING SHEEP

      91. A COLD BATH

      92. TAIL PIECE

      93. OUR FERRY BOAT

      94.

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