The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot Through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia
The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot Through Kashmir, Western Tibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...widows, in your humble homes upon The Cabul plains, and by the steppes of Don, Ask those in power if a frontier's price Is worth of human life such sacrifice? The Eussians carried off their dead, but the number lost is only known to themselves. After taking a series of photographs of this now historical spot, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...widows, in your humble homes upon The Cabul plains, and by the steppes of Don, Ask those in power if a frontier's price Is worth of human life such sacrifice? The Eussians carried off their dead, but the number lost is only known to themselves. After taking a series of photographs of this now historical spot, we turned our horses' heads eastwards, and rode for about three miles over a wide plateau of gravel and sand, with the Alichur river flowing down below in a ravine on our left. At a spot where the river takes a bend to the south, we descended into a sheltered hollow, and camped on its left bank for the night. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Alichur Pamir--Nezatash Pass--A Cossack Patrol take Rassoul for an Afghan--Murghab River--Russian Officers ride out from the Fort to meet us--Entry into Russian Fort--Hospitality of Russian Officers--Eussian Pamir Frontier--Death of one of our Horses from the Cold--Departure for Rang-Kul--Reception by Eussian Officers at the Fort--The Garrison drinking the health of Queen Victoria and the Emperor of Eussia--Extreme Cold--Departure for Chinese Frontier--The Ak-Bhirdi Pass--Arrival at Bulun Kul. November 16th (Russian Camp, Murghabi).--I have been unable to write up my diary for the last few days, owing to my right hand being bound up in glycerine bandages, as my fingers were covered with large cracks, from the effects of the intense cold. A pair of nice warm gloves would command a large price in our camp just now! I never felt anything to equal the cold on these Pamirs; the slightest breath of wind seems to pierce one to the very bones, and as we never have it less than eight to ten degrees below zero every night and morning, and always with more or less wind, it has become well-nigh unbearable. On Friday night we had...
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