Russia in Central Asia in 1889 & the Anglo-Russian QuestionLongmans, 1889 - 477 Seiten |
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... original contributions , to which in the interval I have also been enabled to add a mass of entirely new material . If the impress of their early character be in places at all perceptibly retained , it is because I am strongly of ...
... original contributions , to which in the interval I have also been enabled to add a mass of entirely new material . If the impress of their early character be in places at all perceptibly retained , it is because I am strongly of ...
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... original articles , and to supply me with the means of correcting sundry errors , as well as of amplifying the information , which they contained . For the remainder of the illustrations I am indebted to the courtesy of Major C. E. Yate ...
... original articles , and to supply me with the means of correcting sundry errors , as well as of amplifying the information , which they contained . For the remainder of the illustrations I am indebted to the courtesy of Major C. E. Yate ...
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... original and a striking type of humanity . Something too of marvel , if not much of beauty , must there be in a country which presents to the eye a succession of bewildering contrasts ; where , in fine vicissitude , grandeur alternates ...
... original and a striking type of humanity . Something too of marvel , if not much of beauty , must there be in a country which presents to the eye a succession of bewildering contrasts ; where , in fine vicissitude , grandeur alternates ...
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... original . Through the Caucasus we drove , four horses abreast attached to a kind of family barouche , by the famous Dariel Road . Piercing one of the finest gorges in Europe , it climbs a height of 8,000 ft . , and skirts the base of a ...
... original . Through the Caucasus we drove , four horses abreast attached to a kind of family barouche , by the famous Dariel Road . Piercing one of the finest gorges in Europe , it climbs a height of 8,000 ft . , and skirts the base of a ...
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... original capital of the province of Transcaspia . Thither the terminus of the railway is likely to be transferred from Uzun Ada , on account of the shallow and shifting anchorage at the latter place . Later on low sandhills , clean ...
... original capital of the province of Transcaspia . Thither the terminus of the railway is likely to be transferred from Uzun Ada , on account of the shallow and shifting anchorage at the latter place . Later on low sandhills , clean ...
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Abdurrahman advance Afghan frontier Afghan Turkestan Afghanistan Akhal Alikhanoff already Amir Amu Daria Annenkoff army Asian Asiatic Askabad Baku Balkh banks Bokhara Bokhariots Britain British canals capital Caspian Caucasus Central Asia character Colonel commercial conquest cotton Czar desert distance district dominions Dushak East England English European favour feet Foreign fortress Geok Tepe Government hand Herat horses importance India Is-hak journey Kabul Kandahar Kerki Khan Khanate Khiva Khorasan Kizil Arvat Krasnovodsk Kush latter less MEDRESSE ment Merv Meshed miles military mosque mountains Murghab native oasis officers Orenburg Oxus pass Penjdeh Persia Petersburg political population pouds present province Quetta rails river roubles route ruins Russian Samarkand sand Sarakhs Shah Skobeleff soldiers station steppes stream successful supplies Syr Daria Tashkent Teharjui Tejend Tekke territory tion town trade Trans Transcaspian Railway traveller treaty troops Turko Turkoman Turkoman horse Uzun Ada Vide walls Zerafshan