Preface to Revised Edition Preface Chapter I: The Overland Telegraph Line to Russia--Sailing of the First Siberian Exploring Party from San Francisco Chapter II: Crossing the North Pacific--Seven Weeks in a Russian Brig Chapter III: The Picturesque Coast of Kamchatka--Arrival in Petropavlovsk Chapter IV: Things Russian in Kamchatka--A Verdant and Flowery Land--The Village of Two Saints Chapter V: First Attempt to Learn Russian--Plan of Exploration--Division of Party Chapter VI: A Cossack Wedding--The Peninsula of Kamchatka Chapter VII: Starting Northward--Kamchatkan Scenery, Villages, and People Chapter VIII: Bridle Paths of Southern Kamchatka--Houses and Food of the People--Reindeer Tongues and Wild-Rose Petals--A Kamchatkan Driver''s Canticle Chapter IX: The Beautiful Valley of Genal--Walls of Literature--Scaring Up a Bear--End of Horseback Ride Chapter X: The Kamchatka River--Life on a Canoe Raft--Reception at Milkova--Mistaken for the Tsar Chapter XI: Arrival at Kluchei--The Kluchefskoi Volcano--A Question of Route--A Russian "Black Bath" Chapter XII: Canoe Travel on the Yolofka--Volcanic Conversation--"O Susanna!"--Talking "American"--A Difficult Ascent Chapter XIII: A Dismal Night--Crossing the Kamchatkan Divide--Another Bear Hunt--Breakneck Riding--Tigil--Steppes of Northern Kamchatka Chapter XIV: Okhotsk Seacoast--Lesnoi--The "Devil''s Pass"--Lost in Snow-Storm--Saved by Brass Box--Wild Scene Chapter XV: Cut Off by Storm--Starvation Threatened--Race with a Rising Tide--Two Days without Food--Return to Lesnoi Chapter XVI: Kamchatkan Nights'' Entertainments--Character of People--Salmon-Fishing--Sable-Trapping--Kamchadal Language--Native Music--Dog-Driving--Winter Dress Chapter XVII: A Fresh Start--Crossing the Samanka Mountains--Descent on a Korak Encampment--Nomads and Their Tents--Door-Holes and Dogs--Pologs--Korak Bread Chapter XVIII: Why the Koraks Wander--Their Independence--Cheerless Life--Uses of the Reindeer--Korak Ideas of Distance--"Monarch of the Brass-Handled Sword" Chapter XIX: The Snow-Drift Compass--Marriage by Capture--An Intoxicating Fungus--Monotony of Korak Life Chapter XX: The Korak Tongue--Religion of Terror--Incantations of Shamans--Killing of Old and Sick--Reindeer Superstition--Korak Character Chapter XXI: First Frost-Bite--The Settled Koraks--Hour-Glass Yurts--Climbing down Chimneys--Yurt Interiors--Legs as Features--Travelling by "Pavoska"--Bad Character of Settled Koraks Chapter XXII: First Attempt at Dog-Driving--Unpremeditated Profanity--A Runaway--Arrival at Gizhiga--Hospitality of the Ispravnik--Plans for the Winter Chapter XXIII: Dog-Sledge Travel--Arctic Mirages--Camp at Night--A Howling Chorus--Northern Lights Chapter XXIV: Dismal Shelter--Arrival of a Cossack Courier--Americans on the Anadyr--Arctic Firewood--A Siberian Blizzard--Lost on the Steppe Chapter XXV: Penzhina--Posts for Elevated Road--Fifty-Three below Zero--Talked Out--Astronomical Lectures--Eating Planets--The House of a Priest Chapter XXVI: Anadyrsk--An Arctic Outpost--Severe Climate--Christmas Services and Carols--A Siberian Ball--Music and Refreshments--Excited Dancing--Holiday Amusements Chapter XXVII: News from the Anadyr Party--Plan for Its Relief--The Story of a Stove-Pipe--Start for the Seacoast Chapter XXVIII: A Sledge Journey Eastward--Reaching Tide-Water--A Night Search for a Stove-Pipe--Finding Comrades--A Voice from a Stove--Story of the Anadyr Party Chapter XXIX: Classification of Natives--Indian Type, Mongolian Type, and Turkish Type--Eastern View of Western Arts and Fashions--An American Saint Chapter XXX: An Arctic Aurora--Orders from the Major--Adventures of Macrae and Arnold with the Chukchis--Return to Gizhiga--Review of Winter''s Work Chapter XXXI: Last Work of the Winter--Birds and Flowers of Spring--Continuous Daylight--Social Life in Gizhiga--A Curious Sickness--Summer Days and Nights--News from America Chapter XXXII: Dull Life--Arctic Mosquitoes--Waiting for Supplies--Ships Signalled--Bark Clara Bell --Russian Corvette Varag Chapter XXXIII: Arrival of Bark Palmetto --Driven Ashore by Gale--Discharging Cargo under Difficulties--Negro Crew Mutinies--Lonely Trip to Anadyrsk--Stupid Koraks--Explosive Provisions Chapter XXXIV: A Meeting in the Night--Hardships of Bush''s Party--Siberian Famines--Fish Savings Banks--Work in the Northern District--Starving Pole Cutters--A Journey to Yamsk Chapter XXXV: Yurt on the Topolofka--The Valley of Tempests--River of the Lost--Storm Bound--Escape by the Ice-Foot--A Sleepless Night--Leet Reported Dead--Yamsk at Last Chapter XXXVI: Bright Anticipations--A Whale-Ship Signalled--The Bark Sea Breeze --News from the Atlantic Cable--Reported Abandonment of the Overland Line Chapter XXXVII: Official Confirmation of the Bad News--The Enterprise Abandoned--A Voyage to Okhotsk--The Aurora of the Sea Chapter XXXVIII: Closing Up the Business--A Bargain Sale--Telegraph Teacups Reduced--Cheap Shovels for Grave Digging--Wire Fish Nets at a Sacrifice--Our Narrowest Escape--Blown Out to Sea--Saved by the Onward Chapter XXXIX: Start for St. Petersburg--Route to Yakutsk--A Tunguse Encampment--Crossing the Stanavoi Mountains--Severe Cold--Fire-Lighted Smoke Pillars--Arrival in Yakutsk Chapter XL: The Greatest Horse-Express Service in the World--Equipment for the Road--A Siberian "Send-Off"--Post Travel on the Ice--Broken Sleep--Driving into an Air-Hole--Repairing Damages--First Sight of Irkutsk Chapter XLI: A Plunge into Civilisation--The Nobles'' Ball--Shocking Language--Shakespeare''s English--The Great Siberian Road--Passing Tea Caravans--Rapid Travel--Fifty-Seven Hundred Miles in Eleven Weeks--Arrival in St. Petersburg Index.