Volume 1

Chinese Central Asia : a ride to Little Tibet / by Henry Lansdell ; with three maps and eighty illustrations.

  • Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chinese Central Asia : a ride to Little Tibet / by Henry Lansdell ; with three maps and eighty illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. FROM MOSCOW TO THE CASPIAN. PAGES Railway dangers ahead ; Pleasant fellow-passengers, and offers of hospitality, 13.—Arrival at Kursk; Arrival and enforced stoppage at Kharkof, 14.—Former visit to town prison, 15.—Departure from Kharkof, and arrival in Crimea, 16.—Improved weather at Sevastopol; Sunday service, 17.—Departure for Batoum ; H.B.M. Consul ; Departure across Caucasus, and arrival at Tiflis ; Sir Drummond Wolff and Col. Stewart; Presentation of introductory letters, 18.—Dr Radde and M. Hedjouboff; Departure from Tiflis to Baku, 20 ......... 13—20 CHAPTER III. FROM THE CASPIAN TO MERV. “Wanted” by the Police-master ; Call on the Governor, 21.—Com- forts on steamer to Uzun Ada ; Landing at railway terminus, 22. —Trans-Caspian stations to oasis of Akhal Tekke, 25.—Kizil Arvat, 26.—Arrival at Geok Tepe, 28.—My coming to Askhabad expected, 30.—Continuation of journey to Dushak, 32.—Arrival at Merv, 35.—Hospitality of Colonel Alikhanoff; Modern Merv, 36.— Oriental carpets and embroidery, 37.—Alikhanoff’s successful administration; Quiet and order of Panjdeh, 38.—A visit to Old Merv, 39.—Ruins on site of Merv; Arab and Persian remains, 41.—Russian annexation of Merv, 43.—How brought about, 44.— Liberation of slaves, 46 ....... 21—46 CHAPTER IV. FROM MERV TO THE ONUS. Further railway favours, 47.-—Journey through sand barkhans and desert stations, 48.—Guest at Amu-daria with Colonel Tcharykoff, 5°-—Reforms by new Emir of Bokhara, 51.—Dinner-party at Colonel Teharykoff’s, 52.—Visit to Bek of Charjui; Murder of previous Bek, and lynching the murderer, 54.—The prison re- visited, 55.—The gallows, 57.—Journey continued in a rolling maisonette, 58.—Bridge over the Oxus, 59.-—Inn at Bokhara station, 60 47—60