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id: 22117
title: Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
author: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
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  by far the best rest-house on the road to the Persian capital, with large Of course Persia contains a comparatively small number of Persians of a animals from the great heat of the day--long strings of camels with their shingle hill range extending from the north-east to the south-west. Yezd men are great travellers and possess good business There was a high mountain north-east of camp, the Darband, 8,200 feet, towers--Passes into the desert--A wall-like mountain range--The wall-like barrier to the north and the handsome hills to the south-west. In the centre of this city was a large and high quadrangular wall like a We passed a great many parallel sand dunes, 100 feet high, east and west this place, but some two miles off the road a well of good water has been Three long sand banks from 30 to 50 feet high, facing north,


id: 7320
title: Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute
author: Rodenbough, Theophilus F. (Theophilus Francis)
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  May 16, 1884, Lieut.-General Sir Edward Hamley, of the British Army, upon the Herat road about ten miles west of Kandahar, and there is passing by the town of Farrah, which is 230 miles from Kandahar. Pass near the city, entirely cut off the retreat to India which Another British force of twelve thousand men, under General Pollock, years in the ranks; the furlough of short-service men is passed in presence of a British officer." [Footnote: Indian Army Regulations.] _Routes_.--For operations in Afghanistan the general British base is [Footnote: The Khurd Kabul Pass is about five miles long, with the Kandahar road leads for sixty miles through the Pass--a gradual The Commander-in-chief of the Army of India, General Sir Donald M. existing between the Russian frontier and India which pass the Khusk River for some weeks a large Russian force under General General Hamley, the leading British military authority, [Footnote:


id: 32231
author: Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
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  vain search--A night quest--The Mullahs circumvented--Dark days--Hope appeared to be living at the present time, he said: "Yes, we are good frontier villages of India, as has been their custom from time of the cures effected in the Bannu Hospital from a man in his village it came to pass that one day a wounded Afghan was brought to the man home, and next morning brought him to the mission hospital. Now it is time to visit the hospital wards, and perform the day''s these villages frequently come to the Bannu Hospital, and now I and Afghan life, and as he naturally feels that the advance of mission work team represented all classes--Muhammadans, Hindus, native Christians, and is to this day working in one of our frontier medical missions. place, and witnessing in that little Afghan village of how he went for schools, where Christians, Muhammadans, Hindus, and Sikhs are as

title:
  Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years'' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches


id: 41751
author: Vámbéry, Ármin
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  part, a Hadji from Chinese Tartary (called also Little Bokhara), who the Great Desert, Khiva, and Bokhara was selected. sufferings of long years he reached the holy city, where he died. high an origin has to do amongst the Turkomans in Khiva and Bokhara.'' present day produces upon the traveller arriving from Persia an the Khan of Khiva, on a sort of elevation, or dais, with his left arm having passed the important place called Kaisar, we reached a little history of Khiva, a great part of them were forced by Allahkuli Khan of Central Asia: in his rear, in the cities of Khiva, Bokhara, and [Footnote 120: A place of public resort in the city of Bokhara.] Merv to Bokhara by the Emir Said Khan, when about the year 1810 he at the present day, when journeys, not only in Bokhara, {428} but even

title:
  Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand


