Asiatic NeighboursW. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - 315 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 80
Página vii
... tribes . The two first were of the tender maternal type , and almost beneficial to the hostile tribesmen ; the last meant business , but the enemy , knowing the fact , would not show , hence not a shot was fired . The three together ...
... tribes . The two first were of the tender maternal type , and almost beneficial to the hostile tribesmen ; the last meant business , but the enemy , knowing the fact , would not show , hence not a shot was fired . The three together ...
Página viii
... tribes , now wholly within our political frontier , is confirmed ; but the grounds for my hasty and presumptuous dogmatism on the larger and more important Indo - Russian question are entirely shaken . The result of my reading has ...
... tribes , now wholly within our political frontier , is confirmed ; but the grounds for my hasty and presumptuous dogmatism on the larger and more important Indo - Russian question are entirely shaken . The result of my reading has ...
Página xiii
... General description - The Durrani tribe - The Helmand - Seistan swamp - Its reclamation - Girishk the future battle - field between Russia and England in India 108 • CHAPTER VIII . ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA . CONTENTS . xiii.
... General description - The Durrani tribe - The Helmand - Seistan swamp - Its reclamation - Girishk the future battle - field between Russia and England in India 108 • CHAPTER VIII . ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA . CONTENTS . xiii.
Página xiv
... tribes - Criticism on expedi- tions conducted on Exeter Hall lines -- Delenda est Carthago principle the best in savage warfare - The Russian system— Some unnecessary expeditions - Increased attention to frontier administration - The ...
... tribes - Criticism on expedi- tions conducted on Exeter Hall lines -- Delenda est Carthago principle the best in savage warfare - The Russian system— Some unnecessary expeditions - Increased attention to frontier administration - The ...
Página xv
... tribes . First group : Kohistanis and Cis - Indus Swatis - Black Mountain tribes - The Hindus- tani fanatics - Ambela expedition , 1863 - The Swatis of Swat -Utmankhels - Mohmands - Bajour . Second group : The Afridis - Khyber Pass ...
... tribes . First group : Kohistanis and Cis - Indus Swatis - Black Mountain tribes - The Hindus- tani fanatics - Ambela expedition , 1863 - The Swatis of Swat -Utmankhels - Mohmands - Bajour . Second group : The Afridis - Khyber Pass ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
advance Afghan Turkestan Amir amongst annexation army Asiatic Author Baluchistan Blackwood and Sons border boundary British Caspian Central Asia Cheap Edition clans cloth Crown 8vo defence Demy 8vo district empire England English Europe expedition expenditure Fcap fighting force garrison Ghilzais Gilgit Gilgit Agency Government of India Hari Rud Hazara Helmand Herat Hindu Kush History Illustrations Indus invasion istan Jalalabad Kabul Kafiristan Kandahar Khan Khyber Kohat Kurram land LL.D Lord Maps ment Merv miles military millions sterling mountains Muhammadan Musalman muzhik nation native neighbours North-Western frontier Northern Afghanistan occupy officers Oxus Pamir Panjab Panjdeh pass peasantry Persia Peshawar Poems political population Portrait position Post 8vo Professor province Quetta railway revenue Revised river route rule ruler rupees Russia Scotland Second Edition Seistan Shah Tartar taxation territory Third Edition tion tribes troops Turkomans Tzar valley village vols Western whilst William Blackwood
Pasajes populares
Página 25 - RAMSAY. Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century. Edited from the MSS. of JOHN RAMSAY, Esq. of Ochtertyre, by ALEXANDER ALLARDYCE, Author of 'Memoir of Admiral Lord Keith, KB,
Página 22 - Is. 6d. A Manual of Palaeontology, for the use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology.
Página 31 - BE, of the Ordnance Survey. With numerous Illustrations. 2 vols. folio, £4, 4s. Vol. I., Kintyre, sold separately, £2, 2s. The Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom. A Popular Account. Crown Svo, 5s. WILLIAMSON.
Página 18 - Thousand, revised to the present time. Crown 8vo, pp. 300, 3s. The Intermediate Geography. Intended as an Intermediate Book between the Author's ' Outlines of Geography,' and
Página 24 - OSSIAN. The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic. With a Literal Translation into English, and a Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems. By the Rev. ARCHIBALD CLERK. 2 vols.
Página 13 - GOETHE. Poems and Ballads of Goethe. Translated by Professor AYTOUN and Sir THEODORE MARTIN, KCB Third Edition. Fcap.
Página 14 - Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev.
Página 11 - The Volumes are also sold separately, price 5s. each, viz. :— Romola. 2 vols.— Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob, 1 vol.— Adam Bede. 2 vols.— Scenes of Clerical Life. 2 vols.— The Mill on the Floss. 2 vols.— Felix Holt. 2 vols. — Middlemarch. 3 vols. — Daniel Deronda. 3 vols.— The Spanish Gypsy, 1 vol.— Jubal, and other Poems, Old and New.
Página 7 - Second Edition. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 7s. 6d. Cultivated Plants : Their Propagation and Improvement. Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and Genera in Cultivation. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 12s. 6d. BURTON. The History of Scotland : From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection.
Página 20 - Svo, 5s. The Distinctive Messages of the Old Religions. Second Edition. Crown Svo, 5s. Sacred Songs. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown Svo, 2s.