On Horseback Through Asia Minor

Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was a soldier, traveller, writer, and pioneer balloonist. He was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army, and spoke no fewer than seven languages. In 1875, on a one-man Great Game mission, he rode to Khiva in Central Asia, and the following year set out from Constantinople for eastern Turkey. In 1885 he was speared to death while campaigning in the Sudan, where he is buried somewhere in the desert.

INTRODUCTION; SMYRNA;THE PASHA'S SERAGLIO; CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICIALS; SULTAN ABDUL AZIZ; CONSTANTINOPLE; AN ARMENIAN PRIEST; HADEM KUI; THE DEFENCE OF CONSTANTINOPLE;THE SONG ABOUT THE TURCOS; HORSE BUYING; PREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY; THE BOAT FOR SCUTARI; SCUTARI; THE HAMMALL; THE KHAN AT MOLTAPE; ONE OF OUR HORSES STOLEN; ARRIVAL AT ISMID; VISIT TO THE PACHA OF ISMID; A POST-HORSE TO SABANJA; CIRCASSIAN BASHI BAZOUKS;; YAKOOB KHAN; TOWN OF MUDURLU; NALIHAN; SCENERY NEAR NALIHAN; AN UNCULTIVATED DISTRICT; BEI BAZAR; AN ARMENIAN PRIEST:TURKISH PACK-SADDLE; SULEIMAN EFFENDI; THE INTRIGUES OF RUSSIA: THE NEW CONSTITUTION; A SOCIETY OF THIEVES; SULEIMAN EFFENDI'S WIFE;; TURKISH MELODIES; THE PACK-HORSE IS LAME; TURKISH HOSPITALITY; THE BEY'S PRESENT; THE COOKING POT; HOW THE INHABITANTS BUILD THEIR HOUSES; CROSSING THE RIVER; THE FAMINE AT ANGORA; SEKILI; DAILI VILLAGE; YUZGAT; THE CHRISTIANS AT YUZGAT;; ARMENIAN CUSTOMS; DISSENTIONS AMONGST ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS; THE OLD WOMAN DANCES; DARVISH BEY; THE CHASE; THE SCHOOLBOYS OF YUZGAT; OUTSKIRTS OF THE TOWN; AN ARMENIAN CHURCH;; THE GYPSIES; THE ROAD TO SIVAS; THE FIRE-THE HAREM; THE CAIMACAN; MY TEA AND SUGAR; PACHA WILLIAMS