[4] Dr. Arthur Smith, the well-known authority on Chinese customs, told me that the reason for the non-burial of children in China is due to the fact that they are not recognised as an integral part of the family till after marriage. Consequently it is not uncommon to marry them after death, in order to be able to give them an adopted son to perpetuate the family, and to offer worship at the ancestral shrine. In one case of which he knew, the corpse of the bride was carried with great pomp to the village where the bridegroom had lived, and they were both buried together. [5] Kûfic is the name given to the characters in which the Koran was originally written; it ceased to be used after the tenth century. [6] Hakluyt Society’s Publications, “The Voyage of Friar William de Rubruquis,” p. 166. [7] _Samarkande la bien gardée_, by Durrieux and Fauvelle, p. 183. [8] Arnold’s “Preaching of Islam,” p. 185. [9] See “The Heart of Asia: a History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times,” by F. H. Skrine and E. D. Ross. INDEX Abdullah, 190 Afforestation, 177 Afghanistan, 226, 230 Agriculture in Korea, 125 in Siberia, 173 Alexander the Great, 203 American Missions, 68, 80 Amir of Bokhara, 201, 203, 221 Amu Daria, 183 Amur region, 158 Ancestor worship, 70, 86 Angara River, 155 An-san, 103 Antung, 58, 61, 73 Aphrosiab, 219 Arabian Invasion, Turkestan, 223 Mohammedanism, 223 Aral Sea, 174, 175 Arctic Ocean, 162, 163 Arithmetic, 38 Arnold, 223 Asceticism, Mohammedan, 224 Ashekhabat, 160 Ashiho, Ch. xiii. Askabad, 230 Astor House, Moukden, 31 Australasia, 38 Australian Presbyterians, 79, 108 Azerbijana, 198 Baber, 195 Baghdad, 195 Baikal, Lake, 154, 159, 162 Bajazet, Sultan, 200 Baku, 231-233 Balak Nani, 223 Balkh, 223 Baltic fleet, 112 Baptists, 233 Baths, Chinese, 142 Sulphur, 234 Bazaars, 185, 214, 226 Behren, 22 Beng, 226 Bibi Khanum, 209-213 Little, 210, 213 Bible Society, B. and F., 161, 173, 174, 222, 233 Study, 38, 75, 77, 82 Women, 77, 143 Black Sea, 169, 174 Blanc, Edouard, 191, 218 Blanc, Mont, 236 Blind, 49, 81 Bokhara, Ch. xx., 176, 183, 201, 208, 215, 218 Boxers, 22, 23 Braille, 81 Bronzes, 21, 22 Broussa, 201 Browning, 175 Brugnière, Monseigneur, 89, 90 Brugsch, 234 Buddhism, 45, 70 Buddhists, 48, 49, 57, 159 Buriats, 159-162 Burkans, 160 Bushnell, 21 Camels, 214, 227 Cano, Empress, 198, 199, 209-213 Capus, 172, 182 Carpets, 209, 217 Carts in Turkestan, 181 Caspian Sea, 175, 231 Catherine of Russia, 223 Caucasus, Ch. xxi. Chang Chun, 8 Chang Shan, 47, 51 Chéliabinsk, 166 Chemkend, 183 Chemulpo, 134-137 Chiao, Mr., 67, 114, 122, 130, 133, 177 Child burial, 42, 43