The Life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of KashgarW. H. Allen, 1878 - 344 pàgines |
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The Life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Bradaulet ̱of Kashgar ; With Map ... Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1878 |
The Life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1878 |
The Life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1878 |
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Ababakar Abdulla advance Aksakals Aksu Alim Kuli Ambans Ameer Amursana Andijani appear Asiatic Athalik Ghazi Badakshan Barhanuddin became Beg's Bokhara Buddhist Buzurg Khan Calmucks career Central Asia century chief China Chinese army claims conqueror conquest death district Eastern Turkestan enterprise favour force fresh frontier garrison Genghis Khan governor Hakim Khan Hamil hostile inhabitants Jehangir Jungaria kand Kansuh Karashar Karataghluc Kashgar Khitay Khoja Khokand Khokandian Khoten Khudayar Khan Kipchak Kirghiz Korla Kucha Kuldja Kuldja question Kuli Beg Mahomed Mahomedan Manas massacred merchants military mountains neighbours numbers occasion Pekin Piskent position possession prince prosperity province race region road ruler of Kashgar Russian government scarcely seemed Seyyid soldiers success Tajik Tashkent throne Tian Shan Tibet Timour tion Torah town trade treaty tribes triumph troops Tso Tsung Tang Tungani Turfan Urumtsi Ush Turfan Viceroy Wali Khan Yakoob Beg Yangy Hissar Yarkand Yunus Yusuf
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Pàgina 67 - Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party- conquers in the strife.'" — "Then, by my word," the Saxon said, "The riddle is already read.
Pàgina 6 - ... with his six Muhtasib, armed with the dira to flog people off to prayer, and drive the women out of the streets, and nobody was bastinadoed for drinking spirits and eating forbidden meats. There were mimics and acrobats, and fortune-tellers and story-tellers, who moved about amongst the crowd and diverted the people. There were flags and banners and all sorts of pictures floating at the shop fronts ; and there was the jallab, who painted her face and decked herself in silks and laces to please...
Pàgina 229 - ... very good carpet on the floor : looking about, I saw enter at a doorway on the opposite side, a tall stout man, plainly dressed. He beckoned with his hand and I advanced thinking that it must be a chamberlain who was to conduct me to ' the presence.' Instinctively however I made a bow as I advanced and soon found myself taken by both hands and saluted with the usual form of politeness, and I knew that I was standing before the far-famed ruler of Eastern Turkestan. After a few words of welcome...
Pàgina 228 - According to etiquette we dismounted at about forty paces from the gateway and walked slowly along with Ihrar Khan, the Yasawal-bashi, or head chamberlain, with white wand in hand going ahead. In the outer gateway soldiers were seated on a dais, with their fire-arms laid on the ground before them, their arms folded and their eyes cast on the ground.
Pàgina 215 - I then said that I had brought a few specimens of English rifles, &c., for him, and hoped he would accept them and pardon any deficiencies. He laughed, and said, ' What need is there of presents between you and me ? we are already friends, and your safe arrival has been sufficient satisfaction to me.' With this he crooked his two forefingers together to typify our friendship. I said that I hoped to have some further conversation with him, but that on the present occasion he was probably not at leisure,...
Pàgina 229 - ... found myself taken by both hands and saluted with the usual form of politeness, and I knew that I was standing before the far-famed ruler of Eastern Turkestan. After a few words of welcome the Atalik led me across the room and seated me near him by the side of a window. At this moment a salute of 15 guns was fired. His Highness asked in an eager tone after the health of Her Majesty and of the Viceroy, and soon afterwards called in a low voice to Ihrar Khan to bring in the other officers. They...
Pàgina 6 - Chinese]. Today the peasantry come in with their fowls and eggs, with their cotton and yarn, or with their sheep and cattle and horses for sale; and they go back with printed cottons, or fur caps, or city made boots, or whatever domestic necessaries they may require, and always with a good dinner inside them, and then we shut up our shops and stow away our goods till next week's market day brings back our customers. Some of us go out with a small venture in the interim...
Pàgina 27 - I am King of the East. Thou art King of the West. Let merchants come and go between us and exchange the products of our countries.
Pàgina 230 - ... the health of Her Majesty and of the Viceroy, and soon afterwards called in a low voice to Ihrar Khan to bring in the other officers. They came in one by one, and each was shaken by the hand and made to sit down by my side. Then there was a long and somewhat trying pause, during which the Atalik eyed each one of us with intent scrutiny; I had been told that etiquette forbade the guest to speak much on the first interview, and that it was a point of good manners to sit perfectly still, with downcast...
Pàgina 229 - ... paces from the gateway, and walked slowly along with Ihrar Khan, the Yasawal-Bashi, or head chamberlain, with white wand in hand going ahead. In the outer gateway soldiers were seated on a dais with their firearms laid on the ground before them, their arms folded, and their eyes on the ground. We then crossed obliquely an empty court-yard, and passing through a second gateway filled with soldiers, crossed another court, on all sides of which soldiers in gay costumes were ranged seated. From this...