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, Volume 1J. Murray, 1894 - 712 pages |
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Ahmed Aksakal Aksu altitude Amban Amir Amir's amongst aneroid animals arrived baggage bazaar beautiful Buddha Buddhist called camp caravan Chinese Ching Dolai coolies cross desert dismounted Dras feet fire four Galitzin glacier going head hills Hindu horses Incarnation India Indus Karakash river Karakoram pass Kardong Kargalik Kashgar Kashgaria Kashmir Khan Khotan Kirghiz Ladak Lama Lhasa look Mahammadan miles monastery morning mountains natives night Nirvana nullah officer Pamirs passport Peshawar pitched plain ponies pony-man precipitous Ramzan reached riding rifles river Roche rocks rode round rupees Russian Central Asia Sanju sent Shahidula sheep shikaris Shyok SHYOK RIVER side Sindh Singh snow sort spot Srinagar Sugeyt summit Tashkurgan tents Thanadar Tibet Tibetan to-day took trees troops Tungani Turkestan Turki Urdu valley village walk Western Tibet whole yaks Yarkand Yarkand river
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Page 36 - Syria; to which, perhaps, we may safely add some of the southern kingdoms, and even islands of America ; while the Gothic system which prevailed in the northern regions of Europe was not merely similar to those of Greece and Italy, but almost the same in another dress, with an embroidery of images apparently Asiatic. From all this, if it be satisfactorily proved, we may infer a general union or affinity between the most distinguished inhabitants of the primitive world at the time when they deviated,...
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