Asiatic NeighboursBhavana Books & Prints, 1996 - 315 páginas Excerpt from Asiatic Neighbours Eventually better counsels prevailed and for the rest Of his reign the Amir should continue our firm friend and ally. What his unstable subjects will do after his death no man can foresee. It was in 1892, before the happy change in our relations with the Amir had, for the time at least, falsified pessimistic anticipations, that I began to collect and read books and parliamentary and other papers on Russia generally, her advance into Cen tral Asia, Afghanistan, and our n.w. Frontier. 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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... Hindu Kush . The latter mass strikes off in a straight line W.S.W. for 400 miles to a point a little north of the gaps known as the Irak and Shibar passes , which connect Kabul via Bamian with Afghan Tur- kestan . Here the Hindu Kush ...
... Hindu Kush . The latter mass strikes off in a straight line W.S.W. for 400 miles to a point a little north of the gaps known as the Irak and Shibar passes , which connect Kabul via Bamian with Afghan Tur- kestan . Here the Hindu Kush ...
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... Hindu Kush disentangles itself and throws out clearly defined ridges , between which lie most of the river valleys of Northern and South- ern Afghanistan . Thus the Hari Rud , which en- riches the Herat valley , flows westwards between ...
... Hindu Kush disentangles itself and throws out clearly defined ridges , between which lie most of the river valleys of Northern and South- ern Afghanistan . Thus the Hari Rud , which en- riches the Herat valley , flows westwards between ...
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... Hindu Kush , but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasturelands towards the Turkoman desert . A large part of the face of the country is closely seamed by the buttresses or spurs of the Hindu Kush , each intermediate valley ...
... Hindu Kush , but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasturelands towards the Turkoman desert . A large part of the face of the country is closely seamed by the buttresses or spurs of the Hindu Kush , each intermediate valley ...
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