The boy travellers in the Russian empire- adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia.. (1886) (14580854447)

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Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ure him, and finally ordered the heads of both Conollyand Stoddart to be cut off in the public square of Bokhara. Stoddart was executed first, and then the Emir offered Conolly hisfreedom if he would become a Moslem. Ko, said he, I prefer to die.Stoddart became a Moslem and you have killed him. Go on with yourwork. The Emir nodded to the executioner, and the work of executionwas completed. Wood, another Englishman, who went to Bokhara to ascertain what *4 442 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. had become of Stoddart and Conollv, was imprisoned for some time, andnarrowly escaped with his hfe. A more fortunate explorer was ArmininsYamberj, a Hungarian, who travelled through Central Asia disguised as adervish from Constantinople. At the very outset of his journey he wasobliged to wait for three-quarters of a year in Teheran before he couldfind the right kind of party to travel with. In his character of dervishhe associated with pilgrims like himself, who wished to visit the Moslem
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TAMBERY S RECEPTION BY TURCOMAN CHIEF ON THE CASPIAN SHORE. shrines of Bokhara and Samarcand. They were twenty-four in number,and nearly all of them were distinguished for their poverty. They in-tended to beg their way through the country and back again ; Yamberyhad a little money, which he carefully concealed, as it would not be in ac-cordance with his assumed character of dervish to be known to have anyready cash. From Teheran they went north to the Turcoman country, which thenextended westMard to the shores of the Caspian Sea. On landing, they A GHASTLY SPECTACLE. 443