A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus

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J. Murray, 1872 - 280페이지
 

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257 페이지 - ... at the rate of about two and a half miles an hour, but if the road be deep, it is no uncommon occurrence for the bullocks to sink under the exertion.
22 페이지 - THE HOLY BIBLE, according to the AUTHORIZED VERSION, AD 1611. With an EXPLANATORY and CRITICAL COMMENTARY and a REVISION of the TRANSLATION. By BISHOPS and other CLERGY of the ANGLICAN CHURCH.
209 페이지 - Yak possesses a wonderful knowledge of what will bear his weight. If travellers are at fault, one of these animals is driven before them, and it is said that he avoids the hidden depths and chasms with admirable sagacity.
14 페이지 - The Gallican Church, from the Concordat of Bologna, 1516, to the Revolution. With an Introduction, Portraits. 2 Vols. Svo.
238 페이지 - The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably bring forth two lambs at a birth.
218 페이지 - ... and I have no doubt the natives are right, for only a year ago the correspondent of the 'Daily News' found a fire-temple not wholly abandoned on the shores of the Caspian. Moreover, Wood mentions the reluctance with which a Badakhshi blows out a light. In like manner, he says, " A Wakhani considers it bad luck to blow out a light by the breath, and will rather wave his hand for several minutes under the flame of his pineslip than resort to the sure but to him disagreeable alternative
236 페이지 - China ; while from the low hills on the northern side rises the Sirr, or river of Kokan, and from the snowy chain opposite both forks of the Oxus, as well as a branch of the river Kuner, are supplied.
233 페이지 - Such, indeed, is its quality, that the leanest cattle turned upon it would become fat in the course of ten days. In this plain there are wild animals in great numbers, particularly sheep of a large size, having horns three, four, and even six, palms in length. Of these the shepherds form ladles and vessels for holding their victuals; and with the same materials they construct fences for enclosing their cattle and securing them against the wolves, with which they say the country is infested, and which...
238 페이지 - Haifa dozen strokes with an ax brought the workman to the ground ; and though a few minutes' respite sufficed to restore the breath, anything like continued exertion was impossible. A run of fifty yards at full speed made the runner gasp for breath. Indeed, this exercise produced a pain in the lungs and a general prostration of strength which was not got rid of for many hours. Some of the party complained of dizziness and headaches; but except the effects above described, I neither felt myself, nor...

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