A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central AsiaCassell, 1895 - 334 pages |
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... Tartar Dwarf - Nazar - Packing the Sleigh - Kirghiz Camels - Ural Mountains - Krasnogorsk - Bouran -Off the Track - Harness Broken - Driver Loses his Way - Nazar Famished - Keeping Awake under Difficulties - The Rescue - Nazar's ...
... Tartar Dwarf - Nazar - Packing the Sleigh - Kirghiz Camels - Ural Mountains - Krasnogorsk - Bouran -Off the Track - Harness Broken - Driver Loses his Way - Nazar Famished - Keeping Awake under Difficulties - The Rescue - Nazar's ...
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... Tartar Cook - The Turkoman's Appe- tite - A Khivan Caravan - The Main Road goes to Khiva , the Branch Road to the Fort - Drinking Tea with the Khivans - Sheltering the Camels • xi PAGE . 183 CHAPTER XXIII . A Lazy Guide - A Cold Pig ...
... Tartar Cook - The Turkoman's Appe- tite - A Khivan Caravan - The Main Road goes to Khiva , the Branch Road to the Fort - Drinking Tea with the Khivans - Sheltering the Camels • xi PAGE . 183 CHAPTER XXIII . A Lazy Guide - A Cold Pig ...
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... Tartar language , and travelling as light as possible . † To Mr. MacGahan , and subsequently to Mr. Schuyler , First Secretary at the Russian Embassy at St. Petersburg , I am greatly in- debted for much valuable information with ...
... Tartar language , and travelling as light as possible . † To Mr. MacGahan , and subsequently to Mr. Schuyler , First Secretary at the Russian Embassy at St. Petersburg , I am greatly in- debted for much valuable information with ...
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... and the few broken words of the language he might pick up , in a manner to me quite incomprehen- sible , but Russian moujiki ( peasants ) and Tartar camel - drivers would have been too much even for him . TO ST . PETersburg . 17 Besides ,
... and the few broken words of the language he might pick up , in a manner to me quite incomprehen- sible , but Russian moujiki ( peasants ) and Tartar camel - drivers would have been too much even for him . TO ST . PETersburg . 17 Besides ,
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... Tartars had carried letters there on horse- back , but whether from Orenburg or from Tashkent no one knew . I now determined , should the reply to my letters to General Milutin be in the affirmative , to go to Orenburg and seek for ...
... Tartars had carried letters there on horse- back , but whether from Orenburg or from Tashkent no one knew . I now determined , should the reply to my letters to General Milutin be in the affirmative , to go to Orenburg and seek for ...
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Page 233 - Not only was it far from the intention of the Emperor to take possession of Khiva, but positive orders had been prepared to prevent it, and directions given that the conditions imposed should be such as could not in any way lead to a prolonged occupancy of Khiva.