On the Road to Khiva: With Photogr. Illustr. and Military MapKing, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... four officers in succession , whom I had every reason to believe well - informed . The articles alleged to have been written after my engagement with the Daily Tele- graph were all written before it , that entitled , " From Sevastopol ...
... four officers in succession , whom I had every reason to believe well - informed . The articles alleged to have been written after my engagement with the Daily Tele- graph were all written before it , that entitled , " From Sevastopol ...
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... four years over the Gand Tour , and thought even a trip to Paris an achievement worth talking about , would be thunder- struck at the way in which their descendants dart from Mecca to Mexico , from Sydney to Spitzbergen , from ...
... four years over the Gand Tour , and thought even a trip to Paris an achievement worth talking about , would be thunder- struck at the way in which their descendants dart from Mecca to Mexico , from Sydney to Spitzbergen , from ...
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... four rapid " prostrations " suggestive of a drinking duck , and then fall upon their black bread and salted cucumber with a gusto which sets at nought all surrounding dis- comforts . Nor is the after - deck deficient in " prominent ...
... four rapid " prostrations " suggestive of a drinking duck , and then fall upon their black bread and salted cucumber with a gusto which sets at nought all surrounding dis- comforts . Nor is the after - deck deficient in " prominent ...
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... four sabre - cuts beside his first wound - one Shekhri - Sebzian with his skull stove in like an egg - shell , and the five others all at bay . But when we praised him for it afterwards , he only stared , and said , ' What was I to do ...
... four sabre - cuts beside his first wound - one Shekhri - Sebzian with his skull stove in like an egg - shell , and the five others all at bay . But when we praised him for it afterwards , he only stared , and said , ' What was I to do ...
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... four o'clock next morning , I tramp out under the pouring rain , along a road seemingly modelled after the Slough of Despond - fight my way to the ticket office through a spongy mass of wet Georgians and Imeritines , and get into the ...
... four o'clock next morning , I tramp out under the pouring rain , along a road seemingly modelled after the Slough of Despond - fight my way to the ticket office through a spongy mass of wet Georgians and Imeritines , and get into the ...
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already amid answer Aral Sea army Asiatic bank Bashkir bazaar begin Bokhara Bokhariote camels caravan Central Asia CHAPTER civilisation column comes Cossack dark David Stepanovitch desert desolation Djizak door dreary drink dust dusty English eyes face farther fellow fortress fresh gaunt grey hand heat horses hour later huge hundred journey Kara-Koum Kashgar Kaufmann's Kazalinsk Khan Khiva Kirghiz Kokan kopecks Krasnovodsk Kungrad length look miles morning Mourad night once Orenburg Orsk Oxus pass Perovski post-house postmaster ridge river road roubles round Samarcand sand seen shadow shout side sight soldiers St Petersburg stand steamer steppe stream suddenly Syr-Daria tall Tartar Tashkent Tchikishliar tea-urn tell there's thing Tiflis tion town travelling Turkestan Turkoman turn Ural Ural Cossack Uralsk versts waggon wall whole wonder word worth