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By Marcus Lorenzo Taft

Published 1911
Eaton & Mains; Jennings
& Graham

260 pages

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Tomsk - Page 183
of white birch awaits the traveler on his arrival at the station of Tomsk. This thriving capital of Siberia boasts of its fine university, ...
more pages: 63 198 200 209

Irkutsk - Page 109
He informed us that the previous year four British gentlemen from China had stopped over a few days at Irkutsk. We ascertained afterward that he had ...
more pages: 9 91 96 131

Harbin - Page 40
He was apparently left stranded there, for his residence, as printed on his carte de visite, was in the Pristan quarter of Harbin. ...
more pages: 38 54 65 72

Vladivostok - Page 111
commerce from the Pacific via Vladivostok, and from Korea and China via Manchuria, Irkutsk has a great and prosperous future opening before it. ...
more pages: 24 38 101 166

Krasnoyarsk - Page 178
The Yenisei River is the largest in Asia, and opposite the city of Krasnoyarsk is about half a mile wide. It rises in the tablelands of Mongolia, ...
more pages: 176

Barnaul - Page 211
Or, if we had been so inclined, we could have made an excursion by steamboat to Barnaul, one hundred miles south, among the foothills of the Altai ...
more pages: 212 219

Peking - Page 42
On the day of dedication, by invitation of the Japanese authorities, the Greek patriarch of Peking, with his acolytes and the surviving Russian ...
more pages: 30 43 91 201

Omsk - Page 217
A six hours' ride from Omsk brought us to the city of Petropaulovsk, named in honor of two great apostles, one who labored chiefly among the Jews and ...
more pages: 215 216 218 219

Chelyabinsk - Page 222
far from the railway depot stand the immense modern barracks for the accommodation of immigrants en route for Siberia. The city of Chelyabinsk, 222.

Kiev - Page 59
One very large painting vividly represented the historic incident of the wholesale baptisms in the Dnieper near Kiev, when Christianity was introduced ...
more pages: 76 228

Changli - Page 30
THE fast mail from Peking to Shanhalkuan arrived at Changli a little late on the afternoon of May 13, 1909. Our trio bade farewell to the friends, ...
more pages: 31

Moscow - Page 142
permitted to study in an institution of learning was curtailed in many places to five per cent, and in Saint Petersburg and Moscow to three per cent. ...
more pages: 156 222 224 242

Tobolsk - Page 211
We might have continued our journey by water down the Tom and Obi and up the Tobol Rivers to Tobolsk, as had been suggested. ...
more pages: 217

Tokyo - Page 15
The commingled strains of Eastern and Western life in Constantinople and Tokyo are weaving a far more beautiful fabric than Joseph's coat of many ...
more pages: 84 91 233

Stockholm - Page 252
In spite of the quarantine fetters, shackling our movements day by day, our sojourn in Stockholm was delightful, including an excursion to Upsala and ...
more pages: 249 250

North Conway, New Hampshire - Page 87
tively recalled Elizabethtown on the Lake Champlain side of the Adirondacks and restful nooks as make a summer at North Conway, New Hampshire, ...

Delhi - Page 243
During the past few years a Florentine mosaic expert has been employed by Lord Curzon to restore the beauty of the famous palace at Delhi. ...
more pages: 249

Samarkand - Page 217
with its 156000 inhabitants, which Russia annexed in 1865, and thence by rail via Samarkand with its mausoleum of Tamerlane, thence to Bochara, Merv, ...

Cairo - Page 15
Shanghai and Cairo in their weird, everchanging color effects, and their incessant, startling contrasts, present par excellence the most fascinating ...
more pages: 104 204 251

Selenginsk - Page 93
From Verchne-Udinsk the traveler may proceed by steamer, or by post in a tarantass southward some one hundred miles to Selenginsk, a place hallowed ...

Vitim - Page 111
It possesses railway communication east and west by the TransSiberian line, and, being the emporium for the rich Vitim gold mines and the Amur trade ...

Tashkent - Page 217
city of Semipalatinsk and thence by postroad to the great city of Tashkent in Turkestan, with its 156000 inhabitants, which Russia annexed in 1865, ...

Shanghai - Page 233
The commodious Yangtse steamers plying between Shanghai and Hankow at times run close to the green-tilled fields, where Chinese urchins are riding ...
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New York - Page 14
Could a custodian of the National Museum at Washington, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, have been more courteous?
more pages: 172 196 254

Granada - Page 236
The expulsion of the Mohammedans from Kazan bears the same historic importance to the Russian as the expulsion of the Moors from Granada does to the ...

Rome - Page 40
The sight of a lone Chinaman strolling along a street in classic Rome so stirred the poetic genius of Goethe, that he wrote that gem of a poem ...
more pages: 57 123

Minusinsk - Page 179
Tyrolese-looking town of Minusinsk; and if he travels by steamer, the steep cliffs along the banks will call forth his admiration. ...

Omaha - Page 177
was easily recognizable by the side of American transcontinental railroad tracks, from Omaha to California. Both days the train passed through ...

Bombay - Page 249
Over two years previous we boarded a Messageries Maritimes steamer at Bombay, while the plague was raging in northern and central India, ...

Quebec - Page 99
do those of the Saguenay near Quebec, forrn' rivers, like men, seem to possess a personality of their own. The Rhine and the Hudson attract by their ...
more pages: 18 128

Chesapeake - Page 223
The tourist is, perhaps, reminded of pleasant, picturesque views along the Pennsylvania or Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad over the Alleghenies rather ...

Paris - Page 186
He was expecting to go in two weeks to Paris in order to pass an entrance examination for the Lycée. This young man later acted as cicerone to us on ...
more pages: 162 169 251

Baku - Page 217
then across this inland sea to Baku, with its petroleum industry, and so on to Europe.2 On his way he could visit Russia's new Asiatic stronghold, ...

Kazanka - Page 235
the incident of a slave of the first Khan, who accidentally dropped a golden kettle in the tributary, Kazanka, which debouches here into the Volga. ...

London - Page 137
His private library was well stocked with books, chiefly in Russian, German, and English, for he had studied medicine in London. ...
more pages: 20 28 221

Lake George, New York - Page 250
of islands and islets, making the voyage indescribably delightful, with their ever-varying sylvan scenery, rivaling that of Lake George, New York. ...

Denver, Colorado - Page 120
The clarity of the atmosphere, resembling that of Denver, Colorado, is especially adapted to photography, as was evidenced by the numerous photo ...

Genoa - Page 95
boldly advance into the deep, allowing only here and there scanty, narrow, sandy beaches, resembles the Italian Riviera from Pisa to Genoa and beyond. ...

Wiesbaden - Page 253
A beautiful Russian chapel is situated a little below the summit of the Neroberg in the environs of Wiesbaden. It was erected as a mausoleum for the ...

Berlin - Page 148
Russian campaign, now adorning the walls of the elegant Museum of Alexander III, at Saint Petersburg, when exhibited in Berlin in 1897 attracted ...

Cincinnati - Page 195
out on the plain below, the outlook bore a striking resemblance to a somewhat similar scene from the heights of Walnut Hills, overlooking Cincinnati. ...

Washington, D. C - Page 166
was still in force Bishop Cranston, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now residing at Washington, D. C, happened to be on a visit at Vladivostok. ...
more pages: 191

Winnipeg - Page 163
Every spring and fall, agents of the Doukhorbor TradIng Company visit Winnipeg to buy stores at wholesale rates for cash and.

Chicago - Page 183
Many of the sidewalks were paved with boards, recalling streets in Chicago before the great fire. The Russian drosky-driver is a regular Jehu. ...
more pages: 242

Glasgow - Page 98
A delightful ride of forty-one miles in the wide, fertile Angara valley, dotted with villages and farmsteads, brought us to Glasgow, as the railway ...

Dayton, Ohio - Page 121
as in many another store in Siberia and Russia, was indicated by the familiar click and figures of a “Cash Register,” made at Dayton, Ohio. ...

Damascus - Page 245
When Mohammed from the heights of Lebanon first gazed upon Damascus, gleaming in all its loveliness like an emerald in the desert, he was so entranced ...

Whittier - Page 118
Even the gentle-spirited Whittier feels forced to write: Fell spider of the North,, Stretching thy great feelers forth, Within whose web, ...

Portland, Oregon - Page 196
in Siberian cities, like Irkutsk and Tomsk, were as great a revelation to us as -were those of Portland, Oregon, in 1877, be-.

Naples - Page 103
If prom. enading at night in Naples or Irkutsk may allure the stiletto or garroter's rope, simple caution would compel the tourist to restrict his ...

Riga - Page 221
to Saint Petersburg, Riga, and other Baltic ports, where steamships regularly carry the golden product to England. ...

Jerusalem - Page 245
One of the most touching episodes in the life of our Saviour occurred when he was making his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. ...

Kyoto - Page 104
ahead to clear the way, like a sandaled “betto” through the narrow streets of Kyoto, nor like a gayly sashed “sais” in the crowded alleys of Cairo. ...

Rochester, New York - Page 120
Shops KOAAKH (pronounced “Kodaky”) was a frequent sign before many stores, showing that this Eastman product from Rochester, New York, was busy having ...

Hackensack - Page 128
In some respects the drive across country reminded us of the flat Hackensack meadows in New Jersey. There were numerous cross-streams, canals, ...

Madrid - Page 251
the finest ever tasted, being unexcelled by the thick, sweet concoction of Constantinople and Cairo, or the amber, clear beverage of Paris and Madrid. ...

Lakehurst, New Jersey - Page 16
A month after our landing at New York found us living in “our own hired house” at Lakehurst, New Jersey, a quiet retreat amid the forests and lakes of ...

San Juan - Page 149
So Vereshchagin made a special trip to San Juan in the summer, the ... season in which the battle was fought ‘Russi8che Kulturbilder, by Eugen Zabel, ...

Copenhagen - Page 206
wondrous rapture we gaze at his colossal Christ, in the Lutheran cathedral of “Our Lady,” at Copenhagen, we can almost hear his gracious words saying, ...

Tobol - Page 218
Kourgan, situated on the river Tobol, derives its name from the Tartar “gur,” “kyr,” or “kur,” signifying a grave, or hill, and “khan,” a ...

Caucasia - Page 197
from Vladivostok, where he had been engaged in shipping meat by cold storage from Australia to that port, and now he was on his way to Caucasia. ...

Panama - Page 53
A look of injured innocence came over his face, as, pointing to my Panama, he pertly retorted, “But the foreigners there wear the same kind of hat ...