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FROM PARIS TO PEKIN OVER SIBERIAN SNOWS.


[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF TROITSA.

                         [_Frontispiece._]

FROM PARIS TO PEKIN OVER SIBERIAN SNOWS.

A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European
Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia,
Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall,
and by Mule Palanquin Through
China to Pekin.

by

VICTOR MEIGNAN,

Edited from the French by William Conn.

With supplementary notes not contained in the original edition.

[Illustration]

With a Map and Numerous Illustrations from
Sketches by the Author and Others.







London:
W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.,
Paternoster Square.
1885.

Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Limited, London and Aylesbury.




PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.


Embarrassed readers, who delight in books of travel, whether for the
recreation or the useful information they afford, are not relieved of
their difficulty when the title of the work, instead of indicating
the nature of the subject, only presents an enigma for them to solve.
How, for instance, is the reader to gauge the nature of the contents
of “Voyage en Zigzag?” It might mean the itinerary of some crooked
course among the Alps, or, perhaps, the log-book of a yacht chopping
about the Channel, or the record of anything but a straightforward
jour