Abdurrahman, Emir of Afghanistan,
129; his pension, 134; Sir B.
Frere's opinion thereon, 134.
Abiverd, 34.
Acquisitions in Turkestan by Russia,
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,
Anglo-Saxon character, Strength of,
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.
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.
Calais to Calcutta, 26.
Caspian Sea, The, 22.
Cavagnari, Sir Louis, Murder of, 69.
Central Asia, England and Russia in,
Central Asian Railway, 26.
Civilisation, Comparison of English
and Russian, 165-189; natives
disappear before Russia, 169; ef-
forts of Muscovy inefficient, 171;
condition of the tribes, 171-173;
English influence in Asia, 175; an
Indian's testimony to, 177.
Coming events, 1.
Conquests of Russia, Early, 2-5.
Continental writers, Attacks of, 204.
Crimean war and its achievements,
142.
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.
Deregöz, 33.
Djam, 19.
Djenghis Khan, 3.
Dondukoff Korsakoff, General, 49.
Dulcigno, Comedy of, 139.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Imperial policy in England, Champions
of, 203; apathy respecting, 62, 145,
191, 204.
Increase of Russian influence in Asia,
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.
Keyanian Cap, The, 9.
Kheiber Pass, 147.
Khiva, 8; Russia and, 20; the Khan
of and Russia, 43; massacre of
Khivan Turkomans, 28; occcupa-
tion of, 65; English advice to, 66.
Khokand, 8; rebellion at, 21.
Khorassan, 33.
Khudayar Khan, 17.
Kirghis steppes, 5.
Kirghises, 6; subdued, 14.
Kizil-Arvat, 34, 35.
Kizil-Takir, 28.
Komaroff, General, 43; feeler of, 47;
Koran of the Muscovite, 40.
Krasnovodsk, 27.
Kubbet Mountains, 34.
Kutchum Khan, 4.
Lazareff, General, 29.
Lessar, M., and his mission, 77–80;
on the debatable ground, 96, 97.
Lesseps, M., and the Asiatic railway, 26.
Lomakin, General, 29.
Lumsden, Sir Peter, 83.
Makhdum-Kuli, Prediction of, 40.
Makhdum-Kuli Khan at Geok-Tepe
and Merv, 45; at Moscow, 46.
Malleson, Colonel, on the armies of
England and Russia, 136.
Maruchak Plain, 77.
Marvin Chas., Services of, 29, 45, 53.
Mehne, 34.
Merv, Its history and character, 42;
the Khan of Khokand and, 43; the
story of its fall, 44-49; honours
to Russian agents, 49; voluntary
submission of, 48, 74, 77; a clever
stroke of policy, 50, 51; import-
ance of, strategically, 50-55.
Meshed, 33.
Mikhailofsk, 126.
Mohammedan Asiatics not to be
trusted, 133; their opinion of
Russia and England, 138; sym-
pathy with co-religionists, 140;
Mohammedans in India, 152-154.
Moser, M. Henri, at Ashkabad, 48.
Moslem and Russian supremacy, 156.
Moslem society in India useful to
England, 141.
Mongol irruptions, 3.
Muravieff's mission, 271.
Murakoff Col., and the Tedjend
Murder of Sir Louis Cavignari, 69.
Murghab River, 42; position of, 77;
affluents of, 78.
Namangan, Butchery of, 22.
Nasrullah Khan, 8.
Nomads of the desert, 36.
crushed out by Russian civil-
isers, 170.
Nurverdi Khan, Widow of, 50.
O'Donovan, Mr., in Merv, 83.
Orenburg to Tashkend, Railway from,
26.
Outworks for defence of India, 148.
Oxus, 15, 26, 43.
Tartars, Krim and Nogai, 173.
Tashkend, Capture of, 15; Lord Pal-
merston on the situation, 62.
Tchardjui, 19.
Tchaush grapes, 105.
Tchekishlar, 28.
Tchernayeff, General, 14.
Tchinovnik, 6.
Tchuvashians, a Turkish colony, 171.
Teheran and Russia, 10.
Tekke-Turkomans, Massacre of, 28,
29; their character, 30-37; paci-
fying the, 36; pillaging the, 37.
Temple, Sir R., on the Afghans, 132.
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