[The entries marked with * are images referenced in the text]

The Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece *High Road to the Capital of Szechuan (Cheng Tu), showing Grave- mounds on each side, Bungalow and Criminals Fort (Ting) on Hill-top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To face page 4 *A Chinese Farm-house among the Cross Ranges between Chungking and Suifu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 *Family Group at the House of a Chinese Official . . . . . . . 26 *Chinese Architecture—Field of Opium Poppies . . . . . . . . 38 *A Typical Road (?) in Szechuan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 *Ancient Bronze Temple in Shih Chi Ssu Temple, at Mount Omi. Its surface is covered with Miniature Buddhas, made probably in the Fifteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 *Summit of Mount Omi, with Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 *The Chief Front of the Golden Temple, and Fragments of Former Temple, on Mount Omi (destroyed in A.D. 1546) . . . . . . . 88 *East Front of Sai King Mountain—an Amphitheatre of Rock three thousand feet vertical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 *The Confined Valley of Ta Chien Lu . . . . . . . . . . . 188 *On the Great Brick-Tea Road. Rows of Indian Corn drying under the Eaves of the Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 *"Pailous," or Memorial Arch, under the South Gate of Yachow . . 212 *Sandbanks Exposed on the Banks of the River Ya . . . . . . 220 *Falls of Kiang Shui bei Yangtze . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 *Entrance of Ancient Temple in Szechuan . . . . . . . . . . 240 *Sketch Map showing Mr. A. J. Little's Journeys in 1892-1897 . At end of Volume