Merv; a Story of Adventure and Captivity

Merv; a Story of Adventure and Captivity PDF

Author: Edmund O'Donovan

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781230233963

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...experience of Russians to enable him to form a sound opinion. We had a long conversation upon the political question of the Russian advance. Finally, he remained and slept in the same hut, going away early the next morning. A few days later he surrendered himself to the Russians at Askabad, and afterward had an audience of the Emperor at St. Petersburg. At ten o'clock on the following morning 1 was ordered to mount my horse and proceed to headquarters--to Merv itself, the seat of the Tekke Government, that mysterious.goal to which I had been so long looking forward. It was still raining, and the flat country presented a wretchedly dismal appearance. I was escorted by my fat acquaintance of the previous day, together with twenty other horsemen, and preceded and followed by over a hundred persons on foot. We rode in a northwesterly direction, crossing large and deep irrigation canals, roughly bridged over by tree-trunks covered with brambles and earth, and floundering a good deal through flooded spaces. Then the weather began to brighten somewhat, and I was able to look round. On every side was an immense plain, here and there broken by extensive plantations of trees, and hundreds of groups of beehived-shaped huts, each group consisting of from fifty to two hundred dwellings. The villages were usually from one to two miles apart. The ground was everywhere well tilled, cornfields and great melon beds alternating. Another hour brought us to the banks of the Murgab, which I now saw for the first time. We crossed it upon a rickety bridge, supported on unhewn tree-trunks planted vertically in the riverbed, the roadway being four feet wide, and devoid of anything in the shape of a parapet. This structure was nearly fifteen feet above the surface...

Merv

Merv PDF

Author: Edmund O'Donovan

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781357814588

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Merv, a Story of Adventures and Captivity

Merv, a Story of Adventures and Captivity PDF

Author: Edmond O'Donovan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-16

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780364741009

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Excerpt from Merv, a Story of Adventures and Captivity: Epitomised From 'the Merv Oasis' I left Trebizond at sunset on Wednesday, February 5, 1879, en route for Central Asia. It was my intention to travel to Central Thibet, but subsequent circum stances obliged me to alter my resolution, and directed my steps to a locality perhaps not less interesting. I started by the English steamer Principe di Carignano, ' reaching Batoum early on the morning of the 6th. I found that place wonderfully increased in size, even during the short time which had elapsed since the Rus sian occupation. The number of houses had almost trebled, and, after the fashion of Russia generally, the majority of these consisted of rum and vodka. Sheps. At least one barrel-organ was to be heard grinding in the streets, and, for the first time in the history of the town, public vehicles - the Russian pha'eton, or gig - plied for hire. The same afternoon, the Principe di Carignano continued her voyage, arriving at the mouth of the Rion river in two and a half hours. Here one became fully impressed with the necessity felt by Russia for a B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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