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... Turkish fron- tier , the forays on both sides being conducted on the same plan . The invading party , always on horseback , and with a number of trained led horses , which could travel one hundred miles without flagging , managed to ...
... Turkish fron- tier , the forays on both sides being conducted on the same plan . The invading party , always on horseback , and with a number of trained led horses , which could travel one hundred miles without flagging , managed to ...
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... Turkish plenipotentiary , Noori Effendi ; a Per- sian plenipotentiary , Merza Jaffer Khan ; a Rus- sian commissioner , Colonel Dainese ; and an English commissioner , Colonel Williams , of the Royal Artillery , were to meet , each with ...
... Turkish plenipotentiary , Noori Effendi ; a Per- sian plenipotentiary , Merza Jaffer Khan ; a Rus- sian commissioner , Colonel Dainese ; and an English commissioner , Colonel Williams , of the Royal Artillery , were to meet , each with ...
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... Turks . At length , in June , 1847 , a treaty was signed , in which the confines of the two empires were defined : these , however , being situated in places never surveyed , and only known by traditional maps , which had copied the ...
... Turks . At length , in June , 1847 , a treaty was signed , in which the confines of the two empires were defined : these , however , being situated in places never surveyed , and only known by traditional maps , which had copied the ...
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... Turkish pack - horses - Value of tea - The pipe in the East - Mountain riding — Instinct of the horse - A caravan overwhelmed by an avalanche - -Mountain of Hoshabounar - - A ride down the mountain - PAGE 1 Arrival at Erzeroom CHAPTER ...
... Turkish pack - horses - Value of tea - The pipe in the East - Mountain riding — Instinct of the horse - A caravan overwhelmed by an avalanche - -Mountain of Hoshabounar - - A ride down the mountain - PAGE 1 Arrival at Erzeroom CHAPTER ...
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... Turkish vessels which skim over its waters every year , 500 are said to be wrecked as a matter of course . The wind sometimes will blow from all the four quarters of heaven within two hours ' time , agitating the waters like a boiling ...
... Turkish vessels which skim over its waters every year , 500 are said to be wrecked as a matter of course . The wind sometimes will blow from all the four quarters of heaven within two hours ' time , agitating the waters like a boiling ...
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