Sport and Politics Under an Eastern SkyW. Blackwood and sons, 1902 - 423 頁 |
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Amir animal appearance arrival baggage Baloochistan Baltal Balti Baltistan Basha beast Birjand blankets Boonji brought camels Chah cliffs climbing cold cook coolies crawl crossed Dalbandin day's march distance farther feet fire foot Gesso Gonar ground halt Hanle hard head Helmund herd hills horns huge ibex India Indus journey kafilah Kashmir Khan kharwars Ladak leaving look markhor Meshed midday miles Mohammed morning mountain-side mountains Nasratabad night nullah Nushki o'clock once pass Persian pitched plain ponies Quetta railway Ram Pershad Ramzan reached rest rifle river road rock route Russian Saltana sartip seen serai Shah Shah Beg sharpoo sheep Shigar shikarie shot side sight Sistan Skardu snow soon sowars Srinagar stalk started steep stretches summit tent thana things Tibetan Tibetan antelope tonga took track valley village walking watched whole wild wind yards
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第 107 頁 - Is it true, O Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abed-nego ! do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? " Now if ye be ready, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
第 xvii 頁 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist; A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
第 352 頁 - Government adopts them as a fait accompli which it did not intend, but cannot, in honour, recede from. If the local agents fail, they are disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held is appealed to as a proof that the agents have overstepped their instructions.
第 352 頁 - The policy and practice of the Russian Government has always been to push forward its encroachments as fast and as far as the apathy or want of firmness of other Governments would allow it to go, but always to stop and retire when it was met with decided resistance...
第 352 頁 - Petersburg Government adopts them as a fait accompli which it did not intend, but cannot, in honour, recede from. If the local agents fail, they are disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held is appealed to as a proof that the agents have overstepped...
第 298 頁 - Husainabad, there remains the more modern part of the town, which I have already spoken of as Trenchabad. Separated from the rest of the city by a " maidan " (stretch of level ground) of some acres, it occupies an admirable site, and has the advantage of room for extension, should it at any time be thought advisable to embark upon enlargement. Between two rows of buildings is a wide space more nearly a square than a street, at one end of which flies the Union Jack from a flagstaff planted in a solidly...
第 301 頁 - Kobat, which he looked upon as a certain production of the near future ; indeed, I heard the advent of a line along the new trade-route discussed with much more certainty by the higher-class Sistanis, who look upon the question of its ultimate construction as in no way open to doubt, than I did at the QuettaNushki end of the route.
第 311 頁 - High stands thy Kabul citadel, where many have room and rest ; "The Amirs give welcome entry, but they speed not a parting guest ; "So a stranger needs safe escort, and the "Whom shall I choose of those I know?
第 295 頁 - Nasratabad, the northern half, though little to boast of, is by far the most imposing of the two, being enclosed by high walls about 350 yards in length from north to south, and 400 yards from east to west, with buttresses at intervals of about 40 yards.
第 196 頁 - Lolotte had disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed her.