INDEX.
AIM
AIМАK. the word, i. 84
Ala-shan, xxix, i. 17, 25, 28, 40, 62, 72, 121, 122, 143, 153, 174 seq., 193, 221, 231-270; its mountains, i. 256-269; ii. 56, 259-266; divisions, i. 238; prince, 241 seqq.; ii. 2 seqq., 11, 13, 34 seqq.; Southern, 53, 74, 78, 123; return to, 254
Alai steppe, xxi
Alatau, ii. 236
Alexander the Great, ii. 304 seq.
Almanack, Mongol, i. 65
Altai range, i. 166
Aluin temple, ii. 104
Amban, or governor, i. 242 seqq., 247 seq.; interview with, 253 seqq.
Amitâbha, xxxv, xxxvii
Amneh (ancestors), the sacred peaks, ii. 76
Amur R. and country, i. 160, 170; ii. 57, 78, 79, 84
Anguli-nor, lake, i. 33
Antelope, steppe- (Antilope gutturosa), i. 20, 28; ii. 61; shooting, i. 29 seq.; first sight of, 31; mountain- (A. caudata), 156 seq.; black-tailed (A. subgutturosa), 197, 207 seqq.; ii. 49; orongo- (A. Hodgsoni), 187, 204; superstitions regarding, 207; horns of, 223; ata or little (A. picticauda), 187, 208 seq.
Ara-Bautu, see Bautu
Ara-mirgin-gol R., i. 168, 173
Arbus-ula range, i. 221, 257
Argali, i. 139-142; shooting, 140 seq.; its range, 142; ii. 5; the white-breasted, 201 seqq.
Arnold, Matthew, xvii
Ata-dzeren, see Antelope
Atmosphere, dryness of, ii. 36; effects of rarefied, xvii seqq., 178, 183, 305
BOR
BACTRIAN Camel, see Camel
Baga-Khatun, i. 187, 198
Baian-gol R., ii. 166, 171, 175
Baian-kara-ula range, xv, ii. 181, 221
Baikal lake, ii. 84, 281
Baldin-Sordji, i. 245 seq., 249, 250, 253; ii. I, 36, 38, 43
Bandi, a rank of clergy, i. 79
Banik-Koksum, ii. 152
Banner, legend of White, i. 204 seq.
Barkul, i. 86; ii. 69
Bargaining, dumb, i. 145, 284
Barun-kung, a territorial division, i. 144
Bashpa Lama, i. 280
Bathar-Sheilun temple, i. 155 seq., 158
Baumsteitismus, universal panacea, ii. 164 seq.
Bautu, town of, i. 158, 172; expedition enters, 174; military quartered at, 177; 183, 186, 187, 193, 195; ii. 3, 4, 10, 11, 276
Bayan Tsumbur Mt., i. 257
Bears, ii. 249 seqq.; three kinds in Russia, 251
Beggars, Mongol, i. 14; of Peking, 91
Bellew, Dr., ii. 301
Bergmann, referred to, i. 194
Birch, black, i. 7, 160; white, 7, 160, 259, 261; red-barked, ii. 78
Birds, see Ornithology
Blyth, the naturalist, referred to, ii. 146
Bodhisatvas, xxxv, i. 282
Bogdo-kuren, i. 8, 15
Bogle, i. 281, 286; ii. 300
Boots, of yak-hide, ii. 215
Boro-sondji well, ii. 271
Boro-tohoi, a. Mongol name for Ordos, i. 196