in Siberia and elsewhere, of all grades and conditions in life, who
have placed me under numberless obligations. Wherever I traveled the
most uniform courtesy was shown me, and though conscious that few of
those dozens and hundreds will ever read these lines, I should
consider myself ungrateful did I fail to acknowledge their kindness to
a wandering American.

T.W.K.

ASTOR HOUSE, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1870.


[Illustration: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS By TAY & COX 105 Nassau St. N.Y.]

1. FRONTISPIECE, THE AUTHOR IN SIBERIAN COSTUME
2. CHARACTER DEVELOPED
3. ASPINWALL TO PANAMA
4. SLIGHTLY MONOTONOUS
5. MONTGOMERY STREET IN HOLIDAY DRESS
6. SAN FRANCISCO, 1848
7. CHINESE DINNER
8. OVER SIX FEET
9. STEAMSHIP WRIGHT IN A STORM
10. A SEA SICK BOOBY
11. WRECK OF THE SHIP CANTON
12. ALEUTIANS CATCHING WHALES
13. BREACH OF ETIQUETTE
14. UNEXPECTED HONORS
15. RUSSIAN MARRIAGE
16. RUSSIAN POPE AT HOME