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 ; Performed in the Year 1863Harper & Brothers, 1865 - 493 páginas |
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... distance of only fifteen , or perhaps we may rather say of only thirteen caravan stations ; still , it is fearfully fatigu- ing , when circumstances compel one to toil slowly from station to station under a scorching sun , mount- ed ...
... distance of only fifteen , or perhaps we may rather say of only thirteen caravan stations ; still , it is fearfully fatigu- ing , when circumstances compel one to toil slowly from station to station under a scorching sun , mount- ed ...
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... distance of a couple of English miles , on the banks of a stream , to let our beasts drink . The halt awakened my companions , who , still sleep- ily rubbing their eyes , pointed out to me how Tehe- ran was there lying before us to the ...
... distance of a couple of English miles , on the banks of a stream , to let our beasts drink . The halt awakened my companions , who , still sleep- ily rubbing their eyes , pointed out to me how Tehe- ran was there lying before us to the ...
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... distance of only thirty - two days ' journey from the seat of war , I learned from undeniable sources , to my very great re- gret , that the war in those parts had really broken off all communications , and that since the siege had ...
... distance of only thirty - two days ' journey from the seat of war , I learned from undeniable sources , to my very great re- gret , that the war in those parts had really broken off all communications , and that since the siege had ...
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... distance off , two splendid tigers , whose beautifully - striped forms made themselves visible oc- casionally from the thickets . In this forest the peas- ants told me that there were numbers of wild beasts , but they very rarely ...
... distance off , two splendid tigers , whose beautifully - striped forms made themselves visible oc- casionally from the thickets . In this forest the peas- ants told me that there were numbers of wild beasts , but they very rarely ...
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... distance like a thin strip on the water , whence shoots up a single line of trees , which the eye can follow a long , long way . The sight of this , with its bleak , solitary beach , was any thing but inspiriting . I burnt with desire ...
... distance like a thin strip on the water , whence shoots up a single line of trees , which the eye can follow a long , long way . The sight of this , with its bleak , solitary beach , was any thing but inspiriting . I burnt with desire ...
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