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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
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om-pany him. Then, again, early next morning we weredisturbed by bugle calls for the practising of thesoldiers. Accordingly, when the messengers cameafter breakfast from the Kush-beggi to inquire forour health, and to ask if I had slept well, I repliedthat we had been somewhat disturbed by dogs andwatchmen, but that on the morrow we should like tosee the soldiers practise. Things were better after-wards as regards watchmen and animals, though as Psalm lix. 6. I never had so lively an illustration of this lastfigure as in Constantinople, where every street was monopolized byownerless dogs. They did not obtrude themselves much by day, butat night they are unmercifully severe upon any strange dog that tres-passes into their particular streets, and are not too nice in barking at,if not even attacking, foot passengers t Thereby illustrating The watchmen that went about the city foundme, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls tookaway my vail from me (Cant. v. 7 ; iii. 3).
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94 RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA. for my seeing the soldiers practise, they put us off bysaying that the permission of the Emir must be asked,and pretended that they would exercise no more duringour stay. Upon this I twitted the courtiers by tellingthem that they were ashamed to let us see their soldiers,and that I had heard how badly they were armed.They replied that it used to be so, and that formerlythey were a sorry lot, il but now, they adroitly added,14 we have seen and learned from the Russians, as theRussians did from the French and English. I was curious to be present, if possible, at thepreaching of a Muhammadan sermon at a chief functionon Friday, which is the Moslem Sabbath. Uponinquiry, I was given to understand that the Jumma,or Friday service, would be held at noon in the greatmosque, which, in theory, ought to be large enoughto hold all the Mussulmans in a city. On the morning,therefore, of the day in question, I asked to be taken,and we sallied forth. I also wished to visit, I

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