Book/Printed Material Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.
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Image 1 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 2 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. Book -ffy __- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 3 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 4 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 5 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. ZTPf- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 6 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 7 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. OVERLAND THROUG-H ASIA. PICTURES OP SIBEEIAN, CHINESE, AND TARTAR LIFE. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN KAMCHATKA, SIBERIA, CHINA, MONGOLIA, CHINESE TARTART, AND EUROPEAN RUSSIA, WITH FULL AC- COUNTS OP THE SIBERIAN EXILES, THEIR...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 8 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. Entered according to act af Congress, in the year 1870, by THOMAS W. KNOX, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. The proper steps have been taken to secure...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 9 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. PREFACE. Fourteen years ago Major Perry McD. Collins traversed North- ern Asia, and wrote an account of his journey, entitled A Voyage Down the Amoor. With the exception of that volume no...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 10 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. VI PREFACE. Frederick Whymper, Esq., artist of the Telegraph Expedition, and to August Hoffman, (Photographer,) of Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, the author is specially indebted. The orthography of geographical names is after the...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 11 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. PAGE Frontispiece, The Author in Siberian Costume, Character Developed, 20 Aspinwall to Panama, 23 Slightly Monotonous, 24 Montgomery Street in Holiday Dress, 25 San Francisco, 1848, 26 Chinese Dinner, 27 Over Six...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 12 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. Vlll LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 34. Wagon Ride with Dogs 98 35. Yearly Mail, 100 36. Dogs Fishing, 101 37. Teachings of Experience, 107 33 BoaT Load op Salmon, 115 39 An...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 13 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. IX PA3E 91. A Cold Bath 291 92. Tail Piece, 295 93. Our Ferry Boat, 297 94. Equal Rights, 300 95. Amateur Concert in Siberia, 304 96. Chinese Mandarin,...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 14 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 148. Siberian Exiles, (Full Page,) face page, c 430 149. TAa Piece,.. 435 150. A Vashok, 439 151. A Kibitka, 440 152. Farewell to Irkutsk, 443 153....- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 15 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CHAPTER I. PAGE. Off from New York Around the world by steam Value of a letter of credit A cure for sea sickness— Doing the Isthmus An exciting por- poise race Glimpse...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 16 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. Xll CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. page. Baggage for shore travel Much wine and little bread A perplexing di- lemma How to take the census Siberian beds Towed by dogs En- counter with a...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 17 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CONTENTS. xiii CHAPTER XV. page. First view of China A beautiful region Petrovsky Women in the water An impolite reception— A scanty population Visiting a military post Division of labor for a...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 18 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. XIV CONTENTS. CHAPTEE XXIII. page. An extensive house A Russian gold miner Stories of the exiles Polish exiles The unfortunates The treatment of prisoners Attempts to escape Buying a tarantass Light marching...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 19 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CONTENTS. XV CHAPTER XXX. PAGE The great cities of China Pekin and its interesting features The Chinese city and the Tartar one Rat peddlers, jugglers, beggars, and other liberal professionals The rat...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 20 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 1 XVI CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXVI. page. The exiles of 1 825 The Emperor Paul and his eccentricities Alexander I. The revolution of 1825 -Its result Severity of Nicholas Hard labor for life...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 21 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CONTENTS. XV11 CHAPTER XLII. pagb. A runaway horse Discussion with a driver A modest breakfast A con- voy of exiles Hotels for the exiles Charity to the unfortunate Their rate of travel...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 22 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. XY111 CONTENTS. PAGB. Manufactures at Ekatcrincburg The Granilnoi Fabric Russian iron and where it comes from The Demidofr family A large piece of malachite An emperor as an honest miner 562 CHAPTER...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 23 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CHAPTER I. IT is said that an old sailor looking at the first ocean steamer, exclaimed, There s an end to seamanship. More correctly he might have predicted the end of the...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 24 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 20 PREPABATIONS AT HOME. ancient days. Man is generally desirous of the company of his fellow man or woman, but on a long sea voyage he is in danger of having too...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 25 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. A HILARIOUS FAREWELL. 21 Can I use it in Irkutsk Where, sir In Irkutsk. Really, I can t say what is Irkutsk It is the capital of Eastern Siberia. The person with...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 26 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 22 A BIBULOUS BRITON. I thanked him and sought the deck. An hour after we passed Sandy Hook, my new acquaintance succumbed to the evils that afflict landsmen who go down to...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 27 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. ACEOSS THE ISTHMUS. 23 to Aspinwall. I never saw his equal for swallowing malt liquors. To quote from Shakspeare, with a slight alteration He was a man, take him for half and...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 28 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 24 ON THE CALM PACIFIC. by our motion they flashed and glittered like a river of stars. Looking over the stern one could half imagine our track a path of fire, and...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 29 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CALIFORNIAN HOSPITALITY. 25 in America, and there is no part of our republic where a stranger receives a kinder and more cordial greeting. There is no Eastern iciness of manner, or dignified...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 30 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 26 A COSMOPOLITAN CITY. fessional and unprofessional men of every variety, with a long array of miscellaneous characters. Commerce, mining, agri- culture, and manufactures, are all represented. At the wharves there are...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 31 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. SAN FRANCISCO OF TO-DAY. 27 who looks at this city, would suppose it still in its minority. The architecture is substantial and elegant the hotels vie with those of New York in...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 32 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 28 A VEXATIOUS DELAY. fruit and market gardens whose products have a Brobdigna- gian character. There are the immense stores of wine from California vineyards that are already competing with those of...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 33 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. OUTWARD BOUND. 29 newspapers, a dog, and a bouquet. The weight of these com- bined articles was of little consequence, but I positively de- clare that I never handled a more inconvenient...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 34 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CHAPTER II. THE G. S. Wright, on •which we were embarked, was a screw steamer of two hundred tons burthen, a sort of pocket edition of the new boats of the Cunard...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 35 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. DIFFICULTIES OF SEA LIFE, 31 colonel, but too low for me. Under the skylight was the only place below deck where I could stand erect. The sleeping rooms were too short for...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 36 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 32 A STORM AT SEA. A SOAPY CABIN. upon his side, lie succeeded in learning to keep his feet. The carpenter gave him a box for a sleeping room, but the space...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 37 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 38 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life.- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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Image 39 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. CATCHING SEA-BIRDS, 33 A SEA-SICK BOOBY. One day we caught a booby by means of a hook and line, and found him unable to fly from the deck. It is said that...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870
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Image 40 of Overland through Asia. Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar life. 34 SHIP CANTON. TWO SUNDAYS IN A WEEK. belonging to the East India Company, sailed from Sitka and was supposed to have foundered at sea. Nothing was heard of her until 1867,...- Contributor: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- Date: 1870