A Journey to the Source of the River OxusJ. Murray, 1872 - 280 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Afghan Amírs appears arrived Asiat Attock Baber Badakhshan Balkh Bamian bank boat Bokhara called Captain Burnes century chief Chinese Chitral crossed Darwáz descends Dhera distance district Dost Mohamed Durah east eastern ESSAY Faiz Bakhsh Faizábád feet geographers ground Haïderábád Hazara Hazrat height hills Hindú Hindu Kush horses hundred Hwen Thsang India Indus inhabitants Ish-kashm Jerm journey Kabul Kafila Kalabagh Karakúl Karátigín Kashgar Khan Khulm Kirghiz Koh Daman Kohat Kokan Kokcha Kunduz Kuttock lake Lake Victoria land latter Mahomed miles Mír Mirza Mittun-Kote Mohamed Khán Mohamed Rahim Mohamedan mountains Murad Beg native Oxus Pamir Panja party pass Peshawúr plain ravine reached regions ridge rise river road route seen Seik Shah Shighnan side snow Sogdiana steppe stream Surkháb Tajik Talikhan Tokharistan town Transoxiana traveller tribe Turkistan upper Uzbek valley village Wakhan whilst Wood Wood's Yarkand
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 257 - ... at the rate of about two and a half miles an hour, but if the road be deep, it is no uncommon occurrence for the bullocks to sink under the exertion.
Seite 22 - THE HOLY BIBLE, according to the AUTHORIZED VERSION, AD 1611. With an EXPLANATORY and CRITICAL COMMENTARY and a REVISION of the TRANSLATION. By BISHOPS and other CLERGY of the ANGLICAN CHURCH.
Seite 209 - Yak possesses a wonderful knowledge of what will bear his weight. If travellers are at fault, one of these animals is driven before them, and it is said that he avoids the hidden depths and chasms with admirable sagacity.
Seite 14 - The Gallican Church, from the Concordat of Bologna, 1516, to the Revolution. With an Introduction, Portraits. 2 Vols. Svo.
Seite 238 - The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably bring forth two lambs at a birth.
Seite 218 - ... and I have no doubt the natives are right, for only a year ago the correspondent of the 'Daily News' found a fire-temple not wholly abandoned on the shores of the Caspian. Moreover, Wood mentions the reluctance with which a Badakhshi blows out a light. In like manner, he says, " A Wakhani considers it bad luck to blow out a light by the breath, and will rather wave his hand for several minutes under the flame of his pineslip than resort to the sure but to him disagreeable alternative
Seite 236 - China ; while from the low hills on the northern side rises the Sirr, or river of Kokan, and from the snowy chain opposite both forks of the Oxus, as well as a branch of the river Kuner, are supplied.
Seite 233 - Such, indeed, is its quality, that the leanest cattle turned upon it would become fat in the course of ten days. In this plain there are wild animals in great numbers, particularly sheep of a large size, having horns three, four, and even six, palms in length. Of these the shepherds form ladles and vessels for holding their victuals; and with the same materials they construct fences for enclosing their cattle and securing them against the wolves, with which they say the country is infested, and which...
Seite 238 - Haifa dozen strokes with an ax brought the workman to the ground ; and though a few minutes' respite sufficed to restore the breath, anything like continued exertion was impossible. A run of fifty yards at full speed made the runner gasp for breath. Indeed, this exercise produced a pain in the lungs and a general prostration of strength which was not got rid of for many hours. Some of the party complained of dizziness and headaches; but except the effects above described, I neither felt myself, nor...