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heated brains, are scarcely worth noticing, considering the really undeserved approval I have met with for the last twenty years at the hands of a large majority of the indulgent British public. It was particularly my last lecturing tour in England which has given me the full conviction that my various writings, although derided in certain quarters and at certain periods, have not fallen to the ground. The warning voice which I have raised at various times, when a seemingly cloudless sky deluded the intentionally careless crowd of politicians, has not echoed away, but left an impression on the minds of a few thinking Englishmen. My gratitude to them is boundless; it is owing to this gratitude that I undertook to write the present book, which, destined for a larger circulation, will, I fondly hope, rouse the masses also to the necessity of an active, patriotic, and decisive policy as to Russia.

And lastly, it is this feeling of thankfulness which animates me to go on as before, unflinchingly, in the path of my political writing.

By doing so I am in hopes to achieve two purposes-one, to draw the attention of Europe in general, to the excessive increase of the power of barbarous and despotic Russia; a power obtained through the connivance of our miserable diplomacy, and fraught with dangers to the liberal institutions of

all Europe. In looking around amongst the European nations to discover the one fittest to form an effective barrier against this ruthless aggression, I found that Germany still wants a good deal of time before she matures into such a manhood as to come forward as the real defender of liberty; and that France, being a large room full of enfants gátés, offers less security to the sacred cause of liberty, owing to the fickle minds and puerile freaks of her citizens. It is only the solid rock of Anglo-Saxon character which will furnish the necessary material for effective bulwarks ; and my second purpose in view is, therefore, to strengthen this national element, as far as it lies in the power of a writer; to animate the English to maintain their position in Asia, which is inseparably connected with their power in Europe. If I have in the least succeeded in my aspirations to that effect, I shall deem myself abundantly rewarded.

INDEX.

Abdurrahman, Emir of Afghanistan,
129; his pension, 134; Sir B.
Frere's opinion thereon, 134.
Abiverd, 34.

Acquisitions in Turkestan by Russia,

31-36.

Adam Kirligan, 21.

Affluents of the Murghab River, 78.
Afghan friendship, Value of, 128.
Afghan Frontier Commission, 82, 83,
85, 111.

Afghanistan and India, 9; a neutral
zone, 66.

Akhal, 29; fertility of, 34; work of

the people, 37; civilisation in, 40.
Akhal Tekke-Turkomans, 34; mas-
sacre of, 36.
Ak Sakals, 47.

Alai Mountains in Khokand, 135.
Alikhanoff, Col., of Tartar origin, 44;

how he got into Merv, 45; sub-
mission of the people, 47; his de-
signs on Penjdeh, 88; his action
on the Khushk River, 132.

Altai, 5, 169.

Anglo-Afghan war, Origin of, 60, 68,

129.

Anglo-Saxon character, Strength of,

208.

Argyll, Duke of, on Russian conquest,
125.

Army, English and Russian, 136.

Asiatic professions, Value of, 133.
Asiatics and Russian customs, 33.
Ashkabad (abode of love), 39; its re-
lation to Merv, 44.
Ashurada, Occupation of, 28.
Auckland, Lord, and Turkestan, 8.
Ayoob Khan, 119.

B.

Bagtche-Sarai, Khans of, 4.
Baker and Batoum, 35.
Balkans, 28.

Barrier in Asia inevitable, 158.
Benefits of British conquest in the East
195.

Bokhara, 4; Emir of, 8; assists Kho-
kand, 17; fall of, 25.
Bolan Pass, 147.

Borkhut Mountains, 81.

Brahmins and English culture, 151.
British civilisation in India, 151.
Budjnurd, 33; and Bashkirs, 169.
Burnes', Sir Alexander, mission, 8.

C.

Calais to Calcutta, 26.
Caspian Sea, The, 22.

Cavagnari, Sir Louis, Murder of, 69.
Central Asia, England and Russia in,

71.

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Eastern Question, Solving the, 163.
Egyptian Ophthalmy, 145.
Elbirin-Kir, 81.
Endedjan, 22.
England in Egypt, 139.
England's policy in Asia, 56; Franco-
Russian designs on India, 57; how
frustrated, 58; Lord Palmerston
on, 62; indecision of British states-
men respecting, 62; occupation of
Khiva, 65; a neutral zone, 67;
Russian view of, 71-72; the de-
batable ground and, 76–78.
English and Russian rivalry, 1.
English character, Drawbacks of, 202.
English critics, Attacks of, 204, 205.
English defence of India, 124; sugges-

tions thereon, 128; change of policy
necessary, 133; a feasible line of

defence, 147; a bulwark for India,

148.

English indifference respecting Central
Asia, 62.

English opinion variable, 191.
English opinion, as to the value of
India, 198.

Europeanism in the East, 190.
European politics discussed by aliens,
201; sympathy with England in,
202.

Exactions of the Russians, 37.

F.

Famine Commission in India, 178.
Fazil Beg and the caravan to Merv, 44.
Ferghana, Valley of, 22.

Frere, The late Sir Bartle, on Afghan-
istan, 148; on Russian influence at
Kabul, 158-160.

Frontier, Afghan, Delimitating Com-
mission, 82; English members, 83,
84; Russian members, 85; M. de
Giers' instructions, 86; Russian
designs and English forbearance,
89; outbreak on the Khushk River,
97, 98; frontier regulations un-
known, 98; diplomatic arrange-
ments violated, 98, 99, 111.

G.

Galkin's geographical report on Central
Asia, 28.

Galtcha, or Persian mountaineers, 112.
Geok-Tepe, Siege and capture of, 29;

slaughter at, 30; victory of Sko-
beleff at, 32; material and moral
advantage of, 26-38.

Ghilghit, 135.

Gladstone, W. E., on Russian ex-

tension, 125.
Goklans, 28.

Gortschakoff, Prince, 16, 65; circular
of, 90.

Grand Duchy of Muscovy, 3.
Griffin, Sir Lepel, on the military

strength of India, 157.

Grodekoff, Colonel, at Herat, 122.
Gundámuk, Treaty of, 70.

Gurgan River, 28.

H.

Hazreti-Turkestan, 14.

Herat, 9; Russian designs upon, 73;
a wedge between Persia and Af-
ghanistan, 77-81; Russia and the
Afghan clans, 92; the ethnical fron-
tier of, 89; Russian claims upon it
unfounded, 93-95; Russian pledges
valueless respecting it, 97; the key
of the gate of India, 99; importance
of, 100; distant from India, 127;
distant from Penjdeh, 102; strategi-
cal position of, 100; the town of,
103;
founder of, 104; agricultural
produce of, 106; water supply of,
107; aboriginal population of, 110,
111; situation of, 113; political and
military value of, 113-117; former
splendour of, 116; Russian chances
of its conquest, 118; the power it
would give, 120; effect on Turkish
and Afghan clans, 121; commercial
advantages considered, 122, 123.
Heri-Rud, The, 77.

Hindoo Koosh, The, 114, 135.

I.

Imperial policy in England, Champions
of, 203; apathy respecting, 62, 145,
191, 204.

Increase of Russian influence in Asia,

207.

India, Conquest of, 2; Russia in, 125;
English in, 153; route to, 114;
General Soboleff on English rule
in, 160; Sir R. Temple on a de-
fensive boundary for, 161; imperial
relations of England with, 162;
Russia's march on, 163; the key
to, 163; Russia covets, 164; Eng-
lish power in, 175; success of
civilisation in, 176; an Oriental
parable, 177, 178; Famine Com-
mission in, 178; suppression of the
thagi, dacoity, and soti in, 179;
agricultural labour in, 180; irriga-
tion canals, 181; famines in India,
183; education in, 184; railways
in, 186; English rule preferred in,
188; reasons for England retain-
ing, 190; trade with, 192; luke-
warmness in England concerning,
199; population of, 198.
Indifference to Foreign affairs in Eng-
land, 62, 145, 191.

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