 | Francis Henry Skrine, Sir Edward Denison Ross - 1899 - 592 頁
...task has therefore to be performed over again. "In order to cut short these perpetual disorders \ve established strong places in the midst of a hostile...aspect of the countries to the south of our border. Turkestan and Kokand are sometimes united, sometimes separated, but are always at war, either with... | |
 | Francis Henry Skrine, Sir Edward Denison Ross - 1899 - 536 頁
...Sir Darya, and, on the other, on the Lake of Issik-Kul, and to consolidate the two lines by advanced forts which, little by little, have penetrated the...aspect of the countries to the south of our border. Turkestan and Kokand are sometimes united, sometimes separated, but are always at war, either with... | |
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... on the frontier. The cause of this instability lies, firstly, in the existence between the extremities of this double line of forts, of a vast unoccupied tract where the incursions of robber tribes continue to neutralise our attempts at colonisation... 