Bortson well, ii. 276 Botanical gardens, of St. Petersburg, i. 95, 96 Bread, leavened, ii. 58 Brehm, the naturalist, referred to, ii. 239 Budarhana, a desert shrub, i. 19, 122, 235; ii. 55, 159, 269 Buddha, image of, i. 9, 21 1; ii. 71 Buddha-La, i. 274, 275 Buddhas, incarnate, xxxiii seqq. Buddhism, xxxii seq., i. 74 Buguk-gol R., ii. 107 Bugutui Mt., i. 257 seqq.; ii. 262 Bugutui-gol R., i. 258 Bukha-nor lake, ii. 182 Bulun-tokhoi, ii. 123, 126 Buriat, see Cossack Burkhan-Buddha range, xv seq., ii. 74, 166, 174 seqq.; the name, 175; 177, 201, 213, 224 Burnes, ii. 304 Bushell, Dr., referred to, xxi, i. 105, 283 Buzzard {Buteo ferox), i. 27
CALACHAN, see Ning-hia-fu Camels, caravans of, i. 36 seq. their flesh used as food, 43 ; the two-humped or Bactrian, 120-131 ; breeds of, 121 ; their habits, 121 seq. food, 122; endurance, 123 ; timidity, 124 ; rearing, 124 ; training, 125 ; loads, 126 ; rate of travel, 127 ; coat-shedding, 127 ; ailments, 128, 130 ; uses, 129 ; treatment of, 130 ; their aversion to vater, 179 ; loss of, by expedition, ii. 16 seqq. ; their sufferings from damp, 98 ; wild, xxvi seqq.., 169 seq.
Caragana, a flowering shrub, i. 190, 259 ; ii. 80, 86 seq.., 260, 262
Caravan, Colonel Prejevalsky's re- organisation of, i. 133 seq., 216
Carelin, jI., ii. 236
Carp, ii. 32 seq.
Cart, Chinese, i. 4
Cattle, prices of, in Mongolia, i. 57 ; importance of, 149 ; wild, 2 1 2 seqq.
Chadau (Chatow), i. 44 seqq.
Chagan-kuren, i. 174 Cliagan-7ior, i. 283 Chagrin-gol R., ii. 61, 63 Cha-ho R., i. loo Chakhars and their country, i. 26, 32 seq., 84, 117, 143 ^'-'q-y 152, 169, 184, 203 Chang-kia-kou, see Kalgan Chebayeff, Pamphile, a Cossack, ii. 25, 67 Cheng-ta-fu, district of, i. 85, 103 Chertinton temple, ii. 67, 76, 83, 96, 233, 242 Chihli, see Pechihli Chinese mob, i. 150 seq., 176 seq. Chinese swindling, i. 37 Chinese year and cycle, i. 27S seq. Chinghiz-Khan, his sepulchre, i. 16, 181, 205 ; traditions con- cerning, 167, 194, 203, 216, 221, 279 ; ii. 302 Chingtu-fu, ii. 306 Chobsen, temple of, ii. 38 seq., 47, 58, 67 seq., 70 seqq.; militia at, 65, 72, 98 ; arrival at, -J^, 98 ; dangerous position at, 100 seq.; departure from, 103 ; siege of, 127 scq.; return to, 230, 233 Choh'Ji or click (copper coin), ii. 3 Chorchi, temple of, i. 137 Christianity in Mongolia, i. 83, 134 Chulkan (assembly of tribes), i. 85 Chutun-dzamba, Mongol guide, ii. 172 seq., 219 seq. Clouds, rainless, ii. 267 Coal-beds in the Ala-shan range, i. 259 Compradors, i. 40 scq. Convolvulus tragacanthoides, a prickly shrub, i. 235 Conveyance in Mongolia, modes of, i. 4 Cookery, Chinese, i. 43 Cooper, T. Т., xxxii Copper currency, inconvenience of, i. 97 seq. Cossacks, i. 95, 99, 123, 133, 147, 201, 217, 222, 229; ii. 25 seqq. Cotoneaster, ii. 261 Cranes, flocks of, ii. 102 Crossoptilon auritum, see Long-eared Pheasant Crows of the Gobi, their rapacity, i. 21, 22
