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The Voyages and Travels of Master Anthony Jenkinson from Russia to Boghar, or The Voyage of Master Anthony Jenkinson, made from the citie of Mosco in Russia to the citie of Boghar in Bactria, in the year 1558; written by himselfe to the Merchants of London of the Muscouie companie. Hakluyt. The Journal of Friar Wm. de Rubruquis, a French man of the order of the minorite friers, unto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. Hakluyt. Mémoire sur la Partie Méridionale de l'Asie Centrale. Par N. de Khanikof. 1861. A Journey from Bengal to England, by Geo. Foster, in 1783-84. Pinkerton. Journey to the North of India, overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Afghanistan. By Lieut. Arthur Conolly. 1834. Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara, fait en 1820: rédigé par M. le Baron G. de Meyendorf, et revu par M. le Chevalier A. Jaubert. 1826. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and Ladak, Physical, Statistical, and Historical. By Alex. Cunningham, Major, B.E. 1854. Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Visits to High Tartary, Yarkund, and Kashgar. By Robert Shaw, British Commissioner in Ladak. 1871. Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab; in Ladakh and Cashmere; in Peshawur, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara. By Mr Wm. Moor Historical Sketch of Altyshuhr-Walee Khan Toura-Mohammed Ya- koob Beg-Tungani Rebellion-Heroic Suicide of the Amban-Fall of Kashgar-Yakoob Beg defeats the Tunganis-Receives title of Atalik Ghazee-Treacherous Seizure of Khotan-Reduction of Tash Kurghan-Official Relations with Russia-Mr Forsyth's first Mission -Baron Von Kaulbars' Mission-Exports and Imports-Progress of Russian Influence-Aga Mehdie Raphael-Routes to India-Ladakh -Mr Forsyth's second Mission-Lord Clarendon's Neutral Zone 371-394 Badakhshan-Historical Sketch-Inhabitants--Hindoo-Koosh-The Ha- zarehs-Sykan-Slaves-Aibek-Khulm, or Tashkurghan - Mazar Balkh-Kunduz-Oozbegs- Khana-a-abad-Talikhan -Fyzabad— Darwaz-Roshan-Shignan-Vardoj Valley-Kafirs or Siahpoosh-- Chit- ral-Lieutenant Hayward on the Massacres committed in Yassin by the Dogras-His Death-Gilgit- Chilas Baltistan — Pameer- Hiouen Tsang-Marco Polo-Colonel Yule-Ovis Poli-Bam-i-Du- Colonel Markosof's Reconnaissance in 1872—Diplomatic Correspondence -Advance of General Golof's Corps-A Grand Duke under Felt- Friendliness of the Bokharians-Skirmish with Toorkomans-Re- pulse of the Khivans-Passage of the Amou-Occupation of Hazer- asp-Fall of Khiva-General Verefkin's March-Colonel Lomakin's March-Colonel Markosof's Disaster-- Submission of the Khan- Peace-Distribution of Honours-Sir Henry Lawrence on a Russian Invasion of India-Sir Thomas Munro on our Treatment of the Na- CHIEF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS COMPILATION. 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Michell, F.R.G. S. Roy. Geog. Soc. Journ, xxxviii. A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Printed for Thos. Astley. 1747. Journey from Leh to Yarkand and Kashgar, and Exploration of the Sources of the Yarkand River. By G. W. Hayward. Roy. Geog. Soc. Journ. xl. Timour's Memoirs. Translated by Capt. C. Stewart. An Expedition to the Trans-Naryn Country in 1867. By Baron P. R. Osten Sacken. Translated by E. Delmar Morgan, F. R.G. S. Roy. Geog. Soc. Journ. xl. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Layard's Nineveh. Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. Ocean Highways, &c. &c. &c. CENTRAL ASIA: FROM THE ARYAN TO THE COSSACK. CHAPTER I. GENERAL OUTLINE. THE ARALO-CASPIAN SEA-GENERAL OUTLINES OF CENTRAL ASIA-THE ARAL SEA THE UST URT-THE CHINK-HISTORICAL ALLUSIONS-SIR HENRY RAWLINSON'S THEORY-ANCIENT COURSE OF THE OXUS-THE AMOU OF THE PRESENT DAY—THE JAXARTES, OR SYR-THE CASPIAN SEA. ACCORDING to the late Sir Roderick Murchison,—no mean authority on questions relating to geognosy,-at a time long antecedent to the creation of man, the vast region, familiarly known to the present generation as Central Asia, was covered by a sea that washed the foot of a mountain range, which, at a later period, constituted the boundary lines of Afghanistan and the Chinese Empire. This pre-historic sea was spread over an area computed at 8000 square marine leagues, and extended from the Hindoo Koosh to the European shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Asof. To this huge depression on the surface of the globe Sir Roderick proposed-in compliment to Humboldt the originator of the theory-to give the name of the Aralo-Caspian Sea, whose denizens appear to have had a purely local range, and to have been clearly distinguishable from the molluscs and other marine animals inhabiting the outer ocean. |