On the Road to Khiva: With Photogr. Illustr. and Military MapKing, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... suddenly disappears below . The Englishman , thrusting his hands deeper into his pockets , tramps up and down in the teeth of the wind , with that look of stern resolution . worn by John Bull when dancing a quadrille , or dis- charging ...
... suddenly disappears below . The Englishman , thrusting his hands deeper into his pockets , tramps up and down in the teeth of the wind , with that look of stern resolution . worn by John Bull when dancing a quadrille , or dis- charging ...
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... suddenly put it face to face with a German or an English army , it would be almost as severe a trial as the first time under fire . However , this Khiva busi- ness will be a light affair ; and we have made very com- plete preparations ...
... suddenly put it face to face with a German or an English army , it would be almost as severe a trial as the first time under fire . However , this Khiva busi- ness will be a light affair ; and we have made very com- plete preparations ...
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... sudden halt in front of a long , low , rudely - built shed , planted on the only visible piece of level ground ; and here passengers and baggage are disembarked en masse , as if the train had been stopped by brigands . What does this ...
... sudden halt in front of a long , low , rudely - built shed , planted on the only visible piece of level ground ; and here passengers and baggage are disembarked en masse , as if the train had been stopped by brigands . What does this ...
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... sudden lamplight - till ' at length , just about midnight , I find myself jolting through the flaring streets of a great town , and fall asleep an hour later with the com- fortable consciousness that I am actually in Tiflis at last ...
... sudden lamplight - till ' at length , just about midnight , I find myself jolting through the flaring streets of a great town , and fall asleep an hour later with the com- fortable consciousness that I am actually in Tiflis at last ...
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... sudden breaking - up of the frost , turning the whole country into a sea of liquid mire— . the dragging of the camels and horses by main force from the mud in which they were embedded — the wet bivouacs and chill raw nights ...
... sudden breaking - up of the frost , turning the whole country into a sea of liquid mire— . the dragging of the camels and horses by main force from the mud in which they were embedded — the wet bivouacs and chill raw nights ...
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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