On the Road to Khiva: With Photogr. Illustr. and Military MapKing, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... Persian gardens springing up under the shadow of Swedish forests . Nor is the population a whit less cosmopolitan than the scenery . The sallow beetle - browed Russian , the gaunt Cossack , the bullet - headed Tartar , the keen , dark ...
... Persian gardens springing up under the shadow of Swedish forests . Nor is the population a whit less cosmopolitan than the scenery . The sallow beetle - browed Russian , the gaunt Cossack , the bullet - headed Tartar , the keen , dark ...
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... Persian town , " where you step out of one man's door into another man's chimney , and elbow your way , along narrow lanes , reeking with filth , through crowds of veiled women and bare - legged water - carriers . In this * This ...
... Persian town , " where you step out of one man's door into another man's chimney , and elbow your way , along narrow lanes , reeking with filth , through crowds of veiled women and bare - legged water - carriers . In this * This ...
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... Persian residents themselves , concur in pronouncing my chance of getting to Khiva by that route to be virtually nil - a verdict afterwards borne out by the fate of the Tchikishliar column . There is nothing for it , then , but to try ...
... Persian residents themselves , concur in pronouncing my chance of getting to Khiva by that route to be virtually nil - a verdict afterwards borne out by the fate of the Tchikishliar column . There is nothing for it , then , but to try ...
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... Persian town . " " The only thing to do now is to load your revolver as carefully as your belt , and empty the first yourself before you let any one else empty the second . " " Well , I suppose it would be enough to set up an ordinary ...
... Persian town . " " The only thing to do now is to load your revolver as carefully as your belt , and empty the first yourself before you let any one else empty the second . " " Well , I suppose it would be enough to set up an ordinary ...
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... Persian faces , half - buried in huge conical caps of black sheepskin , which look very much like tarred beehives . But there is one group which has a sad and sinister picturesqueness . Near the stern , a little apart from the rest ...
... Persian faces , half - buried in huge conical caps of black sheepskin , which look very much like tarred beehives . But there is one group which has a sad and sinister picturesqueness . Near the stern , a little apart from the rest ...
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