RUSSIAN C ENTR A L ASIA,
IN C LU D IN G
KU .LD JA , B O K H A R A , K H IV A , A N D M E R V .
C H A P T E R X L V .
FROM SAM A R K A N D TO K ITA B .
new country, little visited by Englishmen.—Changed mode of travel.
|;jil_Xarantass despatched to Karshi.— My retinue. Leaving Samarkand
for Kara-Tiube.—Tent lodging in court of a mosque.— Slumbers
disturbed.— Journey towards Kitab.—Ploughing and threshing.
—Forest plantationsS-The Takhta-Karacha Pass. View of Shahr-
i-sabz.— Descent to Kainar-bulak.—Welcome from Bokhariot
ambassadors.^—Kainar refreshments.— Ride to Kitab.
■ T PH U S much in regard to Russian Central Asia,
| 1 which is the main title of this book. Now
Ive enter on a different district— Bokhara, Khiva, and
(Turkmenia— and with change o f scene comes, in a
Ineasure, change of treatment. When preparing to
leave Samarkand I was conscious of making a distinctly
new departure. One Russian officer had
Expressed surprise that I did not travel with a
Servant. I decidedly preferred not to do so on
¡Russian soil, but now I was to start as a proprietor
[of horses, with two interpreters and two mounted
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