Cover page
FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND.
LONDON
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN’S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD.
Hand drawing
OUR CARAVAN (GOBI DESERT).——DAWN.
FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND
BY
H. DE WINDT.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP.
“Plus Je vis l’étranger, plus J’aimai ma patrie.”——De Belloy.
LONDON—CHAPMAN and HALL,
LIMITED.
1889.
[All rights reserved.]
TO
THE RAJA OF SARAWAK, G.C.M.G.,
IN REMEMBRANCE OF MANY
PLEASANT HOURS OF TRAVEL SPENT IN HIS
DOMINIONS IN THE ISLAND OF BORNEO.
PREFACE.
There are two Englishmen at present living inShanghai who have travelled overland from Europeto China. I was told, when there, that thesegentlemen are continually receiving letters fromEngland asking for information relative to thejourney from Petersburg to Pekin and vice versâ,and in the Gobi Desert and Siberia.
It is mainly owing to this circumstance that Ipublish these pages, for I fear the general readerwill find little to interest him in this record of ourmonotonous pilgrimage through Europe and Asia.I feel that an apology is needed for its publication,and need hardly say that it does not aspire to thetitle of a book of travel, being merely a record ofmy impressions in the less civilized parts of China,and in that weird and melancholy country, moreperhaps from associations than aspect, Siberia.
The voyage is, though somewhat original, sadlydevoid of interest. Urga and Irkoutsk are, nodoubt, well worth seeing, but a passing glimpse ofthese unique cities far from repays the discomfort,not to say hardship, which must be undergone onthe caravan route.
I can only trust this book may deter others fromfollowing my example, and shall then have somesatisfaction in knowing that its pages have not beenwritten in vain.
M. Victor Meignan concludes his amusing work“De Paris à Pekin par terre,” thus:——
“N’allez pas là! C’est la moral                        
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