Through Persia in Disguise

Through Persia in Disguise PDF Author: Charles Stewart
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Through Persia in Disguise

Through Persia in Disguise PDF Author: Charles Stewart
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Through Persia in Disguise; with Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny

Through Persia in Disguise; with Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny PDF Author: Charles Edward Stewart
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230352480
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Languages : en
Pages : 120

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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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX 1 THE COUNTRY OF THE TEKKE TURKOMANS, AND THE TEJEND AND MURGHAB RIVERS. BY Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Stewart, 5th Punjab Infantry. Read at the Evening Meeting, June 27th, 1881.) Reprinted by kind permission of the Royal Geographical Society from the " Proceedings" of September, 1881. MAP. L In April 18801 left Constantinople for Persia, travelling by Trebizond, and through Armenia. At the time I passed through Armenia the famine in the land was terrible. When I approached a village, the first sight I saw was the whole of the women and children out in the fields collecting crocus bulbs, dandelions, and grass, to eat. I was glad to get away from a place where it was so dreadful to see suffering which one was unable to alleviate. There was no food for the people, and small gifts of money, which was all I was able to bestow, were nearly useless. I went from Erzerum by Bayazid to Khoi in Persia, visiting many of the battle-fields of the late war between Russia and Turkey en route, and passing over some of the Kurd country whence Shaik Obidullah later drew a portion of the troops with which he invaded Persia. I travelled from Khoi past the Lake of Urumiah to Tabriz and Teheran, and from Teheran to Ispahan. At Ispahan I remained for two months and a half, residing in the Armenian suburb of Julfa. I had determined to visit Daragez, and here I made my preparations. Daragez is a district of the Persian province of Khorasan. It is situated across the mountain range which elsewhere forms the boundary of North-Eastern Persia. As Daragez projects into the Tekke Turkoman country it is a good place from which to gain information of that tribe. The best road from the country of the Akhal Tekke to the country of the Merv Tekke passes through the...

Oriental Campaigns and European Furloughs the Autobiography of a Veteran of the Indian Mutiny

Oriental Campaigns and European Furloughs the Autobiography of a Veteran of the Indian Mutiny PDF Author: Colonel E. Maude
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780526765010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Oriental Campaigns and European Furloughs

Oriental Campaigns and European Furloughs PDF Author: Edwin Maude
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294320982
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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