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PREFACE

PARIS TO NEW YORK BY LAND

PART I EUROPE AND ASIA

CHAPTER I

THROUGH EUROPE. THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

CHAPTER II

THE PARIS OF SIBERIA

CHAPTER III

THE GREAT LENA POST-ROAD

CHAPTER IV

THE CITY OF THE YAKUTE

CHAPTER V

THE LAND OF DESOLATION

CHAPTER VI

VERKHOYANSK

CHAPTER VII

THROUGH DARKEST SIBERIA

CHAPTER VIII

AN ARCTIC INFERNO

CHAPTER IX

THE LOWER KOLYMA RIVER

CHAPTER X

A CRUEL COAST

CHAPTER XI

IN THE ARCTIC

CHAPTER XII

AMONG THE TCHUKTCHIS

CHAPTER XIII

AMONG THE TCHUKTCHIS—(continued)

PART II AMERICA

CHAPTER XIV

ACROSS BERING STRAITS—CAPE PRINCE OF WALES

CHAPTER XV

AN ARCTIC CITY

CHAPTER XVI

A RIVER OF GOLD

CHAPTER XVII

DAWSON

CHAPTER XVIII

THE UPPER YUKON AND LEWES RIVERS. THE WHITE PASS RAILWAY.

CHAPTER XIX

THE FRANCO-AMERICAN RAILWAY—SKAGWAY—NEW YORK

APPENDIX I

APPROXIMATE TABLE OF DISTANCES PARIS TO NEW YORK

APPENDIX II

LIST OF POST-STATIONS BETWEEN IRKUTSK AND YAKUTSK

APPENDIX III

APPENDIX IV

YAKUTE SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN VERKHOYANSK AND SREDNI-KOLYMSK

APPENDIX V

SETTLEMENTS ON KOLYMA RIVER BETWEEN SREDNI-KOLYMSK AND NIJNI-KOLYMSK

APPENDIX VI

A SHORT GLOSSARY OF YAKUTE WORDS

APPENDIX VII

GLOSSARY OF VARIOUS DIALECTS IN USE AMONGST THE TCHUKTCHIS INHABITING THE COASTS OF N.E. SIBERIA

APPENDIX VIII

METEOROLOGICAL RECORD OF THE DE WINDT EXPEDITION Paris to New York, 1901-1902