Travels and Adventures In Central Asia : A Ride to Khiva

Contents : Introduction. I. Information about Khiva. II. Waist-belt for gold. III. The Volga frozen. IV. Railway officials. V. Twenty degrees below zero. VI. A hole in the ice. VII. Pins-and-needles. VIII. The guardian of the forests. IX. Delayed by a snowstorm. X. Seligh sickness. XI. The ural Cossacks. XII. A supply of provisions. XIII. A sheepskin suit. XIV. A start with the courier. XV. Nomad tribes. XVI. Kashgar. XVII. Break-down of the sleigh. XVIII. An English engineer officer at Kasala. XIX. Ablutions under difficulties. XX. A priest. XXI. Water route from Kasala to petro-Alexandrovsk. XXII. Camels. XXIII. A lazy guide. XXIV. The guide’s retaliation. XXV. Disobedience of orders. XXVI. The turkoman on his donkey. XXVII. Villages fortified. XXVIII. The guide’s Kibitka. XXIX. The oozek. XXX. Oogentch. XXXI. The messenger. XXXII. Breakfast Khiva. XXXIII. The present khan. XXXIV. Departure from Khiva. XXXV. The meet. XXXVI. The tarantass. XXXVII. The district governor. XXXVIII. An inquisitive inspector. Appendices : 1. The Russian advance eastward. 2. Report of Mr. Schuyler. 3. Russian immortality in Central Asia. 4. Treaty of peace between Russia and Khiva. 5. The promise not to annex Khivan territory. 6. Treaty concluded between general kauffmann and Seid Muzafer, Ameer of Bokhara. 7. An Afghan prince on the importance of Merve. 8. Budget of the Turkistan government. 9. Russian operations against the Yomud Turkomans. 10. Movements of Russian troops on the Oxus. 11. Showing how easily merve might to taken by the Russians. 12. A Russians officer on Cossack Bivouacs. 13. A Russian officer about the size and requirements of a steppe train. 14. Ways of communication by sea to the East coast of the Caspian. 15. Steppe routes. 16. The most important routes in Turkistan. 17. Captain Burnaby’s route from Orenburg to Kasala. 18. March routes in Bokhara and Afghanistan, compiled by captain Kostenko, a Russian staff officer. 19. March routes in cachemire and Afghanistan, compiled by Mr. Bektchourin. 20. Colonel Venukoff’s list of routes in China and in central Asia.