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Page 465
D'Arcy Todd , a traveller of some note himself , and to whom we are indebted for the adventurous journeys of James Abbott and Richmond Shakespeare from Herat to Khiva and Orenberg , was killed at the battle of Firoz - shahar .
D'Arcy Todd , a traveller of some note himself , and to whom we are indebted for the adventurous journeys of James Abbott and Richmond Shakespeare from Herat to Khiva and Orenberg , was killed at the battle of Firoz - shahar .
Page 466
Colonel Pelly has since , in the year 1860 , ridden the whole way from Teheran via Herat and Candahar , to India , dressed in the uniform of a British officer , and he encountered no serious danger except among the lawless frontier ...
Colonel Pelly has since , in the year 1860 , ridden the whole way from Teheran via Herat and Candahar , to India , dressed in the uniform of a British officer , and he encountered no serious danger except among the lawless frontier ...
Page 472
... from that point to Bokhara and Samarcand , and back again across the mountains to Herat . There was not much , perhaps , of actual discovery in Vam- béry's explorations , since Arthur Conolly , in 1829 , had preceded him on the line ...
... from that point to Bokhara and Samarcand , and back again across the mountains to Herat . There was not much , perhaps , of actual discovery in Vam- béry's explorations , since Arthur Conolly , in 1829 , had preceded him on the line ...
Page 473
There have always been European adventurers in Central Asia , sometimes established in the cities as military instructors or jewellers , sometimes wandering about the country in search of mines and metals . Herat , Cabul , and Bokhara ...
There have always been European adventurers in Central Asia , sometimes established in the cities as military instructors or jewellers , sometimes wandering about the country in search of mines and metals . Herat , Cabul , and Bokhara ...
Page 494
... with the exception of the Russian Calmucks and a petty clan in the mountains of Ghúr , south of Herat , there is not a single tribe speaking Mongolian or retaining the name of Mongol , beyond the frontier of Mongolia proper .
... with the exception of the Russian Calmucks and a petty clan in the mountains of Ghúr , south of Herat , there is not a single tribe speaking Mongolian or retaining the name of Mongol , beyond the frontier of Mongolia proper .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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