-Kouang 44
Tartar Encampment 48
Interior of a Tartar Tent 50
Russian Convent at Peking 61
Lamasery of the Five Towers 79
Lamasery of Tchortchi 85
Buddhist Temple 87
Interior of Buddhist Temple 89
Tartar Agriculturist 98
Chinese Soldier 100
Chinese Money-changers 109
The Camel Market 121
Vagabond Lamas 124
View of Tchagan-Kouren 128
Caravan crossing the Desert 132
Navigation of the Yellow River 139
Camel of Tartary 146
Water-fowl and Birds of Passage 147
A Fishing Party 155
Election of a Living Buddha 165
The Steppes of Ortous 168
Caves of the Ortous 180
Barbarous Lamanesque Ceremony 188
Lamasery of Rache-Tchurin 201
Turning Prayers 203
Mongol Butcher 210
Encampment at the Hundred Wells 222
Grand Ceremony at the Ancestral Temple 227
Chinese Idol 236
Chinese and Tartar Arms 237
Chinese Princess 253
Chinese Caricature 261
Irrigation of the Fields 262
Root of the Jin-Seng 293

[Picture: Peking]

CHAPTER I.

French Mission of Peking--Glance at the Kingdom of _Ouniot_--Preparations
for Departure--Tartar-Chinese Inn--Change of Costume--Portrait and
Character of Samdadchiemba--_Sain-Oula_ (the Good Mountain)--The Frosts
on Sain-Oula, and its Robbers--First Encampment in the Desert--Great
Imperial Forest--Buddhist monuments on the summit of the
mountains--Topography of