Identifier: russiancentralas02lans (find matches)
Title: Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919 Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919, inscriber. ins
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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g,with the two peaks of Mount Elburz standing abovethe rest; and when, after leaving Batoum, we cameopposite Sukum, I was specially interested in the view,because I am fortunate enough to possess an oil-painting by the celebrated Russian sea painter,Aivazovsky, Off Sukum Kali, that was given meby the artist when he made his debut in London, in1881. Our steamer was the Puschkin, the finest for its sizeI have ever travelled in. The captain had beenordered, however, by telegram, to call at all the portsround the eastern coast, so that our progress was notrapid, though it gave us an opportunity of seeingsomething of Kertch and Sevastopol, which latter Ihad visited before. At length, on the morning of the15th, we arrived at Odessa. Here I bade farewell toMr. Sevier, to whose patience, perseverance, andefficiency not a little of my success was due. He wasto go to Moscow, whilst I, that night, thanks to helpreceived at our Consulate, entered the train forLondon, and arrived on December 21st.
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_• ^ ^ ^ FROM KRASNOVODSK HOMEWARDS. 505 Thus ended my journey of 12,000 miles, duringwhich I was absent from England 179 days, andslept in my clothes half the nights. I was some-what exhausted by the desert journey, but not somuch as I have been by writing this book, whichhas far exceeded the limits I anticipated. I com-menced it with the thought that, having acquiredinformation possessed by no other Englishman living,it was in a measure incumbent on me to offer it tothe public. That duty I have attempted to fulfil, andnow I leave the results in higher hands. As mygoing to Siberia was followed by that of otherlabourers in the same field, so it has been already inCentral Asia; and if the publication of my booksshall, by throwing light upon little-known parts of theworld, tend in any way to their further evangelizationand conquest for Christ, I shall deem that my labourand expenditure of time in writing are justified. Ihave then only to thank the reader who has hadpatience to follow

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