Identifier: visittorussiansi00phib (find matches)
Title: A visit to the Russians in central Asia
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Phibbs, Isabelle Mary
Subjects: Russians -- Asia, Central Asia, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rimes and treacherou.s dealings by the 170 A Visit to the Russians successive sieges by Bokhariots, Afghans, Per-sians (after their capture of Saraks, 1833), andfinally by the Russians. To return to Buchara. A notable point inthe threat o-ate of the Citadel is the clock madeas the price of his life by an Italian for theatrocious Nasrullah, the Amir who murderedthe two brave English officers. The custom of throwing prisoners into a pithas been common in the East from the earliestages. We all remember that Daniel was castinto the den of the lions, and also that Jeremiaswas let down by ropes into the dungeon,where there was no water but mire. AndJeremias sank in the mire. In an enclosedshed opposite to the gateway of the Citadel orArk are some strange specimens of old gunswith mouths shaped like dragons and othermonsters. In visiting the different points of interestin Buchara, you cross and re-cross the greatcovered bazaar, vainly endeavouring to re-member a way by which you have already
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CITADEL OR AKK, BUCHARA in Central Asia 173 passed. It is like an ever-changing kaleido-scope, brilliant colours, picturesque robes, con-stant movement in the streets, and cross-leggedapathetic merchants, with the inevitable cup oftea beside them, planted in the midst of theirwares on each side of the streets, looking pre-cisely as their forefathers must have lookedwhen Master Anthony Jenkinson spent twomonths here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,and also at the time of the visits of the eightor ten Englishmen known to have been in thecity before the occupation by the Russians.The effect is as if you were in a dream ortaking part in some wonderful scene at atheatre, and this is increased by the fatigue ofwalking for hours over the very uneven anddusty thoroughfares, where the sounds of trafficare completely deadened, while there is in theair a ceaseless hum of human voices minoledwith the cries of boys selling sweetmeats ontrays hanging from their necks, or the startling poisht warnin

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