Chapter C: Cabbage pies, 8
Cairo, 40
California, 255
Camel-breeding, Kirghiz women and, 219
Canada, comparison with Siberia, 208-9;
suggested after-the-war measures for, 254;
aliens in, 264
Carlyle, Thomas: “Heroes and Hero-Worship,” 37-9;
his pro-Russian proclivities, 239
Carpet-making in Transcaspia, 33
Caspian Sea, the, 10
Caucasians, author’s impression of, 5
Caucasus, the, future development of, 5
Central Asia, ethnology and, 44;
races of, 44 _et seq._;
Chinese attempt the introduction of Buddhism, 49
Central Asian Railway, building of, 66, 68, 69;
consecration of, 69
_Cervus canadensis asiaticus._ (_See_ Maral)
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, 251
_Charchafs_, 26, 28
Chardzhui, 25;
extension of Central Asian Railway to, 69
Cheesecakes, sweet, 8
Cherkask, 197
Chimkent, Russian capture of, 64;
the cinema at, 86;
the bazaar, 87;
population of, 123
China attacked by the Huns, 45-6;
the Great Wall of, 46;
Russians in, 70;
the Boxer insurrection, 171;
land proportional to population in, 268
Chinatown, New York, 26
Chinawomen and maral horn, 220
Chinese, altruistic, 176, 182;
a native circus, 176 _et seq._
Chinese Tartary, 8;
Mohammedans, 36, 164
Chingildinsky, 165
Chingiz Khan, 49-50
Christianity _versus_ Mohammedanism, 37 _et seq._
Chugachak, 182
Churek-cakes, 29
Cinema theatres, popularity of, 61, 86, 104, 159, 211
Colonial preference, question of, 245
Colonials, British admiration for, 267
“Commonwealth, Prospect of a,” 249 (note)
Confederation of the Round Table, the, 249
Constantinople, Germany and, 242;
Dostoieffsky on, 242;
and the Great War, 243
Constantinovka, 132
Cornucula, 95
Cotton goods, 206-7
Crooke, William, letter to author, 258-262
Curzon, Earl, 237
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