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Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, 37
Horse thieves, warning against, 269.
Horses, in Mongolia, 263.
Hosie, Sir Alexander, 93, 94, 119.
Hou Wei Têh, 243.
Hsi-Liang, and the opium trade of Yunnan, 25.
Hsiao Hsiang Ling, 91.
"Hsien," meaning of, in placenames, 31n.
Hua-lin-ping, 112, 114, 161.
Huc, Abbé, quoted, 249, 250, 279, 280.
Hui-li-chou, European women rare visitors to, 69; native Christians in, 70; 67, 68.
Humphreys, Dr., missionary, 81.
Hupeh, province of, 38, 218, 227.
Hupeh money, 37, 38.
Ichang, from Chung-king to, by river, 2i3ff.; a busy place, and why, 221 ; its location, 221, 222; 177, 226.
Impedimenta, advice as to, 4-6; all essentials procurable at Hong Kong, 4.
Imperial City, the, in Peking, 230.
Imperial Post-Office, efficiency of, 127, 128.
India, 310.
Indo-China, French rule in, 8, 9; under Doumer, 9, 10; little outward difference between men and women of, 19.
Inns, in villages, 47; in towns, 47, 48; plenty of hot water the one luxury of, 48; foul-smelling, 48; in Mongolia, 248.
Intemperance, absence of, in East, simplifies travel there, 84.
Interpreter, the, a Kiangsi man, 4, 5; his democratic instincts, 203; dismissed at Hankow, 224; 34. 77, 78, 79, 86, 96, 97, 99, 100, 108, 121, 133, 140, 151, 152, 156, 178.
Iro River, travelling on, 305, 306.
Irrawaddy River, 71.
Ivan, tarantass driver, 292, 294, 297, 298, 299.
Jack (terrier), 6, 11, 12, 32, 33, 34, 40, 45, 46, 60, 61, 95, 103, 104, 108, 127, 140, 143, 146, 147, 149, 151, 153, 166, 170, 178, 192, 205, 224, 229, 239, 259, 264, 265, 274, 275, 295, 297, 298, 307.
Jam, in praise of, 240.
Japan, and the Manchurian railway, 246.
Japanese, at Chengtu, 175.
Jardine, Mattheson & Co., 225.
Jee-ka, 56.
Kalgan, China and Mongolia meet at, 235; main roads from, to Urga, 244, 245; an outpost of Russia, 246; 233, 238, 239, 241, 242, 243, 252, 257, 266, 273, 281.
Kalgan-Peking R. R. the first railway constructed by Chinese, 234.
Kang (furnace), 248.
Kang Hi, 116.
Kerosene, white wax superseded by, for lighting, 73.
Kiakhta, "very western," 303, 304; its great commercial past, 304; 289.
Kinsha Kiang. See Yangtse River.
Ku Niang (author's title), 140.
Kuan Yin (Goddess of Mercy), temple to, 113.
