F.F.Low of Sacramento, Alfred Whymper, Esq., of London, and the many gentlemen connected with the Telegraph Expedition.

There are dozens and hundreds of individuals 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.