Narrative of a Journey Through the Province of Khorassan and on the N. W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875, Band 2W. H. Allen & Company, 1879 |
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... Herat , in 1837 and 1857 , and has been in hundreds of skirmishes with Toorkmuns . He is a Hurat Sheea , but has been living in Persia for the last thirty years . He has not a very favourable opinion of the Afghans , and he became quite ...
... Herat , in 1837 and 1857 , and has been in hundreds of skirmishes with Toorkmuns . He is a Hurat Sheea , but has been living in Persia for the last thirty years . He has not a very favourable opinion of the Afghans , and he became quite ...
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... Herat . The old Surteep was much interested when I in- formed him that I could make sweet drinkable waters out of the worst and most salt stuff he could give me , and he begged me to show him how it was done . I accord- E A B С A ingly ...
... Herat . The old Surteep was much interested when I in- formed him that I could make sweet drinkable waters out of the worst and most salt stuff he could give me , and he begged me to show him how it was done . I accord- E A B С A ingly ...
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... Herat on the south , and Khiva and Bokhara on the north , marks it out as a future pro- bable entrepôt of commerce . With regard to its strategical importance , I think a glance at the map will show that in the complications , which ...
... Herat on the south , and Khiva and Bokhara on the north , marks it out as a future pro- bable entrepôt of commerce . With regard to its strategical importance , I think a glance at the map will show that in the complications , which ...
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... Herat , and so they are ever ready to receive any fugitive chief from that country in the hopes of making use of him at a future date , as a stalking - horse for their own purposes . In addition to Ayoob , they have now got a son of ...
... Herat , and so they are ever ready to receive any fugitive chief from that country in the hopes of making use of him at a future date , as a stalking - horse for their own purposes . In addition to Ayoob , they have now got a son of ...
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... Herat I had found abundance of water every- where ; and I had begun to forget my experience of the waterless tracts . The whole country round this is very much exposed to Toorkmun raids , and consequently the whole plain is dotted with ...
... Herat I had found abundance of water every- where ; and I had begun to forget my experience of the waterless tracts . The whole country round this is very much exposed to Toorkmun raids , and consequently the whole plain is dotted with ...
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13 WATERLOO PLACE Afghanistan Afghans ascends Asia Astrabad Attruk Baloche Birjund Bostam British Bujnurd called Caspian Chah crossed cultivation Damghan defile Demy 8vo descends desert Dictionary district drainage drains Durbund Durraguz east easy English farsakhs farsangs farsuk Fcap feet forage frontier fuel gate Ghaeen half a mile half miles Herat hills horse houses howz Hurree Rood Illustrations India Jahjurm Khaf Khan Khiva Khorassan Koochan Koords Kotul Krasnovodsk Kullat Kuveer large village Mahamad main range Merv Military mountains Mushudd Nishapoor Oxus PALL MALL pass Persian plain Post 8vo pretty ride ridge river road goes road is level round route Russian Second Edition Seestan Shah Shahrood side Sketches spur stony stream Subzwar Surrukhs Tehran Thence three miles Toorkmuns Toorks Toorsheez tract Translated Tubbus undulating valley vols W. H. ALLEN waste water and supplies WATERLOO PLACE whence whole
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