# A Wayfarer in China/Index

INDEX
INDEX
China, and Tibet, meet in Tachienlu, 123; western boundary of, 124; revolution in, effect of, on relations between China and Tibet, uncertain, 125; ​grouping of trees in, 154; status of missionaries in, 158, 159; fruit and vegetables in, 206; and Mongolia, meet at Kalgan, 235; hold of, on North Mongolia, insecure, 285; is she in decay? 317, 318; impression produced by, 318, 319; her future, 321. And see Chinese and Chinese Government.
Constitution of the U.S., lecture ​on at Chung-king Men's Club, 210.
Horse thieves, warning against, 269.
Horses, in Mongolia, 263.
Hosie, Sir Alexander, 93, 94, 119.
Hou Wei Têh, 243.
Hsiao Hsiang Ling, 91.
"Hsien," meaning of, in placenames, 31n.
Hua-lin-ping, 112, 114, 161.
Huc, Abbé, quoted, 249, 250, 279, 280.
Humphreys, Dr., missionary, 81.
Hupeh, province of, 38, 218, 227.
Hupeh money, 37, 38.
Imperial City, the, in Peking, 230.
India, 310.
Iro River, travelling on, 305, 306.
Irrawaddy River, 71.
Jam, in praise of, 240.
Japanese, at Chengtu, 175.
Jardine, Mattheson & Co., 225.
Jee-ka, 56.
Kang (furnace), 248.
Kang Hi, 116.
Kinsha Kiang. See Yangtse River.
Ku Niang (author's title), 140.
Kung-tan, 214.
Kwang-chou-wan, 7, 9; bay of, 7.
Kwangtung, province of, 51, 105, 316.
Kwei-chou, 55.
Kweilu, the, river-steamer, 221.
aspect and effects of, 138; strength of, in Mongolia, 279, 280; said to be encouraged by Chinese Government, 281; its effect on the people, 281, 282; a
Tuerin, 268; of Bogdo, at Urga,
Lao-Kai, 18-20.
Laughter, the universal solvent, 60.
Leng Chi, 115.
Lesser Trail, the, 140 ff.
trade of Yunnan, 26; and the
Li Ping, 167.
Li-chou, 86, 87.
Lime juice, merits of, 240, 241.
"Lincoln," 31.
Literatus. See Interpreter.
Little, Archibald, 116, 209.
Liu, chair coolie, 79, 84.
dismissed at Hankow, 224; 38, 45, 48, 56, 86, 103, 110, 140, 178,
Liu Sha River, 104.
Loess country, the, 228.
Lo-han, 182.
75; neighborhood of, complicates travel in the Chien Ch'ang, 75; measures taken by government thereanent, 77;
75, 76; their ethnological status a problem, 76, 77; their proper appellation uncertain, 76, 77;
Losus, in Yunnan, 50.
only connecting link between China and Tibet, 116, 117; 115,
Lu-Han R.R., 225, 227, 228.
Lu-ku, 88.
Ma-An Shan Pass, 145, 154.
cities in Urga, 275, 276; the Chinese trading settlement,
Mai-ma-chin, on the Siberian frontier, 302.
Manchuria, 55, 236.
Mandarin Road, the, 104 ff.
Manners, in China, 129.
Mekong River, 71.
Mencius, quoted, 312.
"Mercury," coolie, 107.
Miaos, in Yunnan, 50.
Mien-ning, 89.
Military schools, in Yunnan, 28.
Military spirit, in Yunnan, 27.
Ming dynasty, fall of, 171.
Ming Shan (mountain), famous for tea, 163.
Ming Shan-hsien, 163.
Mohammedan rebellion, 50, 54.
Mohammedans in Yunnan, 50.
Monastery of the Voice of the Waters, 182.
Mongol city, in Urga, 277.
Mongolian plateau, the, 247 ff.
Mongolian Road, 244.
Mongolian tents. See Tents.
Mongolian women. See Women, Mongolian.
Mongols, material position of, 253, lazy, 254; their herds, 254; neither manufacturers nor tillers of the soil, 254; as tea-drinkers, 254; great endurance of, 254; intemperate, 254, 255, 260; fine horsemen, 255; degenerate sons of a conquering race, 255; oppressed by Chinese, not by China, 260; eye-diseases of, ​265; effect of lamaism on, 282; prefer Russians to Chinese, 285; not China, but civilization is driving them to the wall, 296, 297.
Mongols, Northern, 268, 270.
Monks, of Burma, their Buddhism, 282.
Morrison, George B., 237, 238.
Moscow, 236.
Namti River, 18, 21 ; valley of, 15, 21.
Nan River, 165.
Nankow, 233, 234.
Nankow, Pass of, 228.
Napoleon III, 8.
Ni T'ou, 111, 121.
Nicholas II, Tsar, 306.
Nicolai, 292, 295.
Omei, Mount. See Omei Shan.
Omei River, 184, 187.
ascent of, 187 ff.; myths and legends concerning, 188, 189; monasteries on, 190, 193, 194; memories of a three days' stay on the summit of, 194-199; wherein its charm consists, 198,
Manchu government adverse
Pai-chang, hiring a pony at, 163-165.
Pai-la shu (white- wax tree), 73.
Pailou (memorial arch), 104, 105.
Palm-leaf hats, 19, 20.
Pao-an-ying, 95.
Paper, substitute for glass in West China, 40.
Pechihli, Gulf of, 228.
of, 228, 229; the Tartar Wall, 229 ff.; the divers cities of, 230; viewed from the Wall, 231, 232; the American Legation, 232; the streets, 232 ; to the average European its history begins in 1900, 233; preparing for Mongolian journey at, 237 ff.; 24,
Peking cart, an instrument of torture, 243, 244.
Peking railway, the. See Lu-Han R.R.
People's Assembly, the, 230.
Photographing, in Szechuan, 156.
Pien-ma boundary question, 29, 30.
Pilgrim to Lhasa, the, 112.
P'ing-i-p'u, 98, 99.
Pongkiong, 260.
Ponies, Yunnanese, 34, 35.
Yunnan, 26; banished from
"Pork money," 36, 96, 97.
Precious Stone Castle, 214.
P'u-chi, 53.
P'u-hsien Bodhisattva, 189, 190, 191.
Purple City, the, in Peking, 230.
Queue, the, 43.
Rainy season, the, in No. Mongolia, 270-272.
Rats, 21.
Red lama, the, 258, 265.
Reeves, Captain, 237.
Reform movement, in Yunnan, 27.
"Relay," the. See Mongolian Road.
Religion, in India, 310; in China, 311.
Religions, great diversity of, in Yunnan, 50.
Richthofen, Baron von, 106, 165, 166.
Rivers of Sand. See Sha Ho.
Roman Catholic missions in China, 158.
Roman Catholic missionaries at Chengtu, 174.
Russian Consulate at Urga, 277, 278.
Russian frontier. See Siberian frontier.
Russian settlement in Urga, 277, 291.
Russians, in Urga, 284.
Russo-Asiatic Bank (Urga), 241, 277, 284.
Sacred City, the. See Urga.
Salween River, 71.
Sandals, 43, 44.
"Second Gentleman," the (son of Li Ping), 167.
Sha Ho, 252.
Sha Shen Ho, 244.
Shamo. See Gobi Desert.
Shanghai, 4, 222, 225, 226.
Shans, in Yunnan, 50.
Shantung, 236.
Shields, Dr., 158.
Shields, Mrs., 158.
Shih Ta-k'ai, Taiping leader, 89, 99.
Shyok River, 60.
Si Kiang, the, 29.
Siberian Railway, 236, 306, 307.
Soap, in Mongolia, 261, 262.
Soothill, Dr., 159.
"Squeeze," the, 96, 97.
Standard Oil tins, use of, in Mongolia, 250.
Stevenson, Owen, missionary, 33, 41, 53.
Süchi, 184.
Sugar, a great delicacy in Mongolia, 301.
Suifu, 64, 75, 203, 206.
Sung-lin, inn at, 87.
Szechuan dogs, and the sun, 64.
Szechuan money, 37.
Szechuan road, the, 217, 218.
Ta Ho, 235.
Ta Fo Rapid, 181.
Ta Liang Shan (Lololand), 74, 75, 92.
Ta Shueh Shan, 117.
Chinese administration, 124; its only bridge, 116, 117, 139; its change of name, 118, 119; 42, 89, 99, 101, 143, 161, 180, 181, 182, 184; valley of, 114,
meet in, 123; in the grip of lamaism, 124; principality of King of Chala, 125; government of, 125; key to the western country, 125; meeting Capt. Bailey at, 126 ff; postal arrangements at, 128; the people the most interesting feature of, 130, 131; practically all China-Tibet traffic passes through, I32, 133; visit to a temple at, 136-138; priests of, 138; 105,
Tailless dog, hunt for the, 205.
Taiping rebellion, the, 89, 99.
Ta-kiang, the Min sometimes so-called, 203.
Taoism, 317.
Tar Ho, 123.
Tarantass, travelling in a, 289-304.
123, 141, 142; valley of, 119,
Tartar City, the, in Peking, 230.
Tartar Wall, the, at Peking, 229 ff.
Tashi Lama, the, 277.
Ta-shu-p'u, unique instance of ​native unfriendliness at, 99, 100; 101, 105.
Tchagan Hou, 269, 271,274, 289.
Tea, Szechuan, 159.
Tea-houses, on the Mandarin Road, 108, 109; 44.
Temple of Heaven, the, 230, 231.
Temples, Chinese, generally uninteresting, 32.
Teng-hsiang-ying, 89, 90, 92.
Tibet, Western, adventure in, 60.
Tibetan Mountains, 92, 123, 162.
Tien-chüan-chou, approach to, 153, 154; 155.
Tien-Shan, 251.
Tientsin, 257, 279.
Tobacco, use of, universal, 66, 67.
Tola River, 274, 275, 276.
Tommy Atkins, in India, and the vernacular, 20.
Tonking-Yunnan R.R. See Red River R.R.
"Trackers" on the Yangtse, 215, 216, 218, 219.
Travellers on Red River R.R., 16, 17.
Tso-ling Ho, 62.
Tsungli Yamen, 229.
Tuan Fang, 226, 227.
Tuerin, 268, 269.
Verchneudinsk, 304, 305, 306, 307.
Villages, in Yunnan, 45.
Wa Ssu Kou, 118, 119, 141, 142.
Wagons Lits, Hôtel des, at Peking, 228.
Wai-wu-pu, the, 237, 243.
Wan-hsien, 177, 214, 219.
Wan-nien Ssu, 190, 191.
Water Gate (Peking), 229.
Wellwood, Mr., missionary, 81, 84. ​Wellwood, Mrs., 178.
Wells, in Gobi Desert, 252, 264.
West River valley, 16.
White Emperor's Temple, the, 217.
White Tsar, the, 246.
Wild life, in the Gobi Desert, 262, 263.
Windbox Gorge, 216.
"Wine money," 83, 84.
Wives, come high in Mongolia, 261; their status, 261.
Wolves, Mongolian, 262, 263.
Women, Chinese, qualities of, 86.
Woosung, 225.
Wu-pan (boat), down the Min and Yangtse in, 202 ff.
Wu-ting-chou, 57-60.
Yalung River, 67, 71.
Yang, Mr., 211.
Yellow Emperor, the, 189.
Yellow River. See Hoang.
"Young Ladies." See Annamese Tirailleurs.
Younghusband expedition to Lhasa, 126.
Yuan Shih Kai, 227.
Yuan-pu, the, 192.
Yüeh-hsi, 94.
Yun Bay, 16.
Yunnan dollars, 37.
Yurts (Mongolian huts), 248, 249.