A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central AsiaCassell, 1895 - 334 pages |
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... Sheepskin Suit - Servant Hunting - A 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 ...
... Sheepskin Suit - Servant Hunting - A 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 ...
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... sheepskin attire , but I cannot wish my worst enemy a greater punishment than forcing him to sleep out on the steppes in winter time with mere cloth attire , no matter how thick . Fur or skins of some kind must be worn , or without this ...
... sheepskin attire , but I cannot wish my worst enemy a greater punishment than forcing him to sleep out on the steppes in winter time with mere cloth attire , no matter how thick . Fur or skins of some kind must be worn , or without this ...
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... sheepskin coat , cap , and vashlik , he declared that he was ready to start . The cold was very intense when we quitted the threshold . The thermometer had fallen several degrees during the last half - hour . The wind had increased ...
... sheepskin coat , cap , and vashlik , he declared that he was ready to start . The cold was very intense when we quitted the threshold . The thermometer had fallen several degrees during the last half - hour . The wind had increased ...
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... sheepskins , unwashed humanity , and some oily cooking going on in a very dirty frying - pan , at last caused my companion to inquire if there was no other room vacant . We were shown into a small adjoining apartment . Here the smell ...
... sheepskins , unwashed humanity , and some oily cooking going on in a very dirty frying - pan , at last caused my companion to inquire if there was no other room vacant . We were shown into a small adjoining apartment . Here the smell ...
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... sheepskin between his finger and thumb , when holding it at arm's length before him , he deposited the filthy garment in the other room . " Go there , brother , for the sake of God , and pass the night with your fellows . " It was in ...
... sheepskin between his finger and thumb , when holding it at arm's length before him , he deposited the filthy garment in the other room . " Go there , brother , for the sake of God , and pass the night with your fellows . " It was in ...
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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.