On the Road to KhivaH.S. King, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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Página 52
... steppe for you again , flat as a billiard - board . Provided we can feed our workmen ( which will be the real difficulty ) , all the rest ought to be as easy as smoking a cigarette . " " But how about the matériel ? " " O , for that ...
... steppe for you again , flat as a billiard - board . Provided we can feed our workmen ( which will be the real difficulty ) , all the rest ought to be as easy as smoking a cigarette . " " But how about the matériel ? " " O , for that ...
Página 62
... steppe to pick up their own living , often straying ten or twelve miles from the station to which they belong . Hence , when you arrive at a halt- ing - place , the programme is very much as follows : - The postmaster , having got your ...
... steppe to pick up their own living , often straying ten or twelve miles from the station to which they belong . Hence , when you arrive at a halt- ing - place , the programme is very much as follows : - The postmaster , having got your ...
Página 66
... steppe , he cannot exactly say where he will send a man after them presently , provided he can find a man to send . In fact , his whole address to us is very much in the style of the " doubting philosopher : " " O blessed Madonna ( if ...
... steppe , he cannot exactly say where he will send a man after them presently , provided he can find a man to send . In fact , his whole address to us is very much in the style of the " doubting philosopher : " " O blessed Madonna ( if ...
Página 74
... have carried the banners of Russia from the Ural to the Thian - Shan . All the steppe forts which I have seen throughout the length and breadth of Central Asia- Karabutak , Uralsk , Forts No. 1 and 2 , 74 On the Road to Khiva .
... have carried the banners of Russia from the Ural to the Thian - Shan . All the steppe forts which I have seen throughout the length and breadth of Central Asia- Karabutak , Uralsk , Forts No. 1 and 2 , 74 On the Road to Khiva .
Página 75
... steppe for- sakes us altogether , and the genuine desert - the famous " Kara - Koum " itself - begins to assert its presence in earnest . " There's no pasture for us here , " says the Kirghiz * Why these names were given , it is hard to ...
... steppe for- sakes us altogether , and the genuine desert - the famous " Kara - Koum " itself - begins to assert its presence in earnest . " There's no pasture for us here , " says the Kirghiz * Why these names were given , it is hard to ...
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