A WAYSIDE TEMPLE 178 A MONGOL BELLE AND HER YURTA 186 A ZABAIKALSKAIA BURIAT 186 A MONGOL “BLACK MAN” 206 TEMPLE OF GIGIN, URGA 222 TEMPLE IN THE URGA LAMASERY 228 A PROSTRATING PILGRIMAGE 234 A GRAND LAMA 244 CHINESE MANDARIN 256 GIGIN, THE LIVING BUDDHA 256 CHINESE ARCHWAY, URGA MAIMACHEN 262 THE GREAT WALL 270 THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW 282 RUSSIAN TYPES--DRAGOON, CONSTABLE 292 STREET SCENES IN MOSCOW 302 (The Tverskaia Gate, Loubianskaia Place) RUSSIAN TYPES--PEDDLER, POLICEMAN 316 THE MIRACLE OF ATTILA’S REPULSE 332 (From the painting by Raphael in the Vatican) ON THE ROAD TO THE MING TOMBS 342 THE GLORY IS DEPARTED 360 THE BRIDGE AND TABLETS IN PEI-HAI 368 HSUEN-WU GATE, PEKING 374 PEKING, WHERE THE ALLIES’ MAIN ASSAULT WAS MADE 380 SUMMER PALACE OF THE EMPEROR 388 MAP OF ASIA, SHOWING ROUTE FROM MOSCOW TO PEKING 392 THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA I THE PATH OF THE COSSACK An ancient way leads across northern Asia to the Chinese borderland. The steel of the great Siberian Railroad harnesses now the stretch which mounts the Urals, pierces the steppes, winds through the Altai foothills, and by cyclopean cuts and tunnels girdles Lake Baikal. From Verhneudinsk southward, it has remained as an ancient post-road leading through the Trans-Baikal highlands to the frontier garrison town of Kiahta. Over the Mongolian border at Maimachen, it has narrowed into a camel-trail threading the barren hills to the encampment of the Tatar hordes at holy Urga. Thence it strikes across the sandy wastes of Gobi, and passes the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, on its way toward Peking and the Pacific.