NUE KLEBER, PARIS,
_October 1903_.

CONTENTS

PART I.--EUROPE AND ASIA.

CHAP. PAGE

I. THROUGH EUROPE. THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. 15
II. THE PARIS OF SIBERIA 28
III. THE GREAT LENA POST-ROAD 41
IV. THE CITY OF THE YAKUTE 68
V. THE LAND OF DESOLATION 92
VI. VERKHOYANSK 109
VII. THROUGH DARKEST SIBERIA 122
VIII. AN ARCTIC INFERNO 148
IX. THE LOWER KOLYMA RIVER 171
X. A CRUEL COAST 183
XI. IN THE ARCTIC 203
XII. AMONG THE TCHUKTCHIS 221
XIII. AMONG THE TCHUKTCHIS (_contd._) 239

PART II.--AMERICA.

XIV. ACROSS BERING STRAITS--CAPE PRINCE OF WALES 257
XV. AN ARCTIC CITY 274
XVI. A RIVER OF GOLD 286
XVII. DAWSON 304
XVIII. THE UPPER YUKON AND LEWES RIVERS. THE WHITE PASS RAILWAY 323
XIX. THE FRANCO-AMERICAN RAILWAY--SKAGWAY--NEW YORK 340

PART III.--APPENDICES.

I. APPROXIMATE TABLE OF DISTANCES, PARIS TO NEW YORK 361
II. LIST OF POST STATIONS BETWEEN IRKUTSK AND YAKUTSK 363
III. REINDEER STATIONS BETWEEN YAKUTSK AND VERKHOYANSK 368
IV. YAKUTE SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN VERKHOYANSK AND SREDNI-KOLYMSK 370
V. SETTLEMENTS ON KOLYMA RIVER BETWEEN SREDNI-KOLYMSK
AND NIJNI-KOLYMSK 372
VI. A SHORT GLOSSARY OF YAKUTE WORDS 373
VII. GLOSSARY OF VARIOUS DIALECTS IN USE AMONGST THE
TCHUKTCHIS INHABITING THE COASTS OF N.E. SIBERIA 375
VIII. METEOROLOGICAL RECORD OF THE DE WINDT EXPEDITION 377

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HARRY DE WINDT Frontispiece
POOR YAKUTES Facing page 64
THE CHIEF OF POLICE, VERKHOYANSK 97
A VISITOR