Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja, Volume 2Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1876 |
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Abdurrahman Abramof administration affairs aksakals Amir Amu Darya Andijan army arrived Asiatic asked attack Attrek bazaar brought Bukhara camels capture caravans Central Asia chief Chinese command Cossacks detachment district Dungans Emperor envoy expedition force frontier garden Government Governor Governor-General Hodjent horses immediately inhabitants Issyk Kul jigit Jungaria Kalmuks Karshi Kashgar Kaufmann Kazala Khanate Khiva Khokand Khokandians Khudayar Khan kibitka Kiptchaks Kirghiz Kuldja Kush-Begi lake letter Mantchus Marghilan medressé Mekhter merchants miles military Mirza mosque mountains Mussulman Namangan Naryn natives nomads obliged occupied officials Orenburg passed Persian Petersburg population prefect present province received relations river road rubles Russian Samarkand Scobelef seemed Semiretch sent Shahrisabs Siberia side slaves soldiers steppe Syr Darya taken Taksaba Tarantchis Tartar Tashkent taxes Tchu tion told town trade treaty tribes troops Tsar Turkistan Turkomans valley Vierny village Yakub Khan Yomuds
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Page 210 - 1869. almost as a promised land. It was believed that not only would it support the troops stationed there, but that it would also afford large and increasing revenues to the Government. What I have said in a previous chapter about the commerce, agriculture, and mineral resources of the country will show how far this was in reality from being the case. . . . The primary objects which led to the occupation of Central Asia were military rather than financial; and as long as the province is considered...
Page 265 - Afghan-Turkestan, comprising the districts of Kunduz, Khulm, and Balkh, the northern boundary of which would be the line of the Oxus from the junction of the Kokeha River to the post of the Khoja Saleh, inclusive, on the high road from Bokhara to Balkh.
Page 353 - If your Excellency sees that the Yomuds are not occupying themselves with getting together money, but are assembling for the purpose of opposing our troops, or perhaps even for leaving the country, I order you,
Page 186 - Office declared its readiness to restore it to China whenever a sufficient force could be brought there to hold it against attacks and to preserve order. So far this has not been done, and the question of the permanent occupation and annexation of the province still remains undecided.
Page 42 - On both banks there are gardens, all of which overlook the river. Its violets are particularly elegant. It abounds in streams of running water. In the spring its tulips and roses blow in great profusion. On the skirt of this same hill of Barakoh, between the hill and the town, there is a mosque, called the Mosque of Jouza ; and from the hill there comes a great and wide stream of water. Beneath the outer court of the mosque there is a meadow of clover, sheltered and pleasant, where every traveler...
Page 266 - Ali, in order to induce him to maintain a peaceful attitude, as well as to insist on his giving up all measures of aggression or further conquest.
Page 357 - We burned, as we had done before, grain, houses, and everything which we met ; and the cavalry, which was in advance, cut down every person, man, woman, or child. . . . They were generally women and children whom we met. I saw much cruelty " (ii. 361). 2. My next duty is to give the most material allegations of fact in reply from the paper of
Page 348 - The excitement of the population gradually ceased, the streets again filled with people, and the bazaars were reopened. Strict orders were given at the same time to the soldiers to send out no foraging parties, and to take nothing from the inhabitants, but to pay cash for everything at the bazaars. This was a mercy which the inhabitants had scarcely expected, and to which they were not accustomed ; and not only were they not thankful for it, but they began to abuse it.
Page 265 - Shibbergan and Andkoi, the latter of which would be the extreme Afghan frontier possession to the north-west, the desert beyond belonging to independent tribes of Turcomans. " (4) The Western Afghan frontier between the dependencies of Herat and those of the Persian Province of Khorassan is well kown and need not here be defined.
Page 259 - Darya, besides fortifying Chemkent, which has been recently taken by us. We find ourselves in the presence of a more solid, compact, less unsettled, and better organised social state, fixing for us with geographical precision the limit up to which we are bound to advance, and at which we must halt...