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meditated the invasion of Hindostan by a confederate army that unites on the
plain of Persia; and any secret was made some two intention
great European potentates to start in following spring a hostile
demonstration--Contre les possessions de the companies des Indes.'
However, the danger was dissuaded by an essay to Teheran in March 1809,
in that the Shah of the covenanted of Persia not to allow strength European
anything to pass through Persia toward India, or toward the harbors of
that country. And so the visionary danger passed away.
The old southern border of Russia in Central Asia extended by the
northerly of the Caspian one of Orenburg and Orsk, I cross to the Mongolian old man
city of Semipalatinsk, and you/he/she was protected by a cord of strong and Cossack
outposts. It was approximately 2,000 miles in length, and [the Footnote:
_Quarterly Review_, Oct. 1865.] 'it was behind the great Kirghis
Steppe, and to a certain extension checked the tribes that pasture in the
neighborhood, but from anybody means the taking of Russia established on that
unexplored, and to a large extent lifeless, waste.'
During all the more first years of the century, while we was establishing
our power in India, continuous intrigues and wars they happened in Persia,
Afghanistan and Central Asia; and rumours was felt of every now and then
threats against us that we formed the subject of diplomat
treatment at times; but in reality the scene was so distant
what our affairs were not stricken seriously, and it was not up to that
1836 that they started to practice a powerful influence as you greet ours
policy on the frontier of Northwest.
In that year God Auckland was general Governor and Capitano Alexander
Burnes was expeditious on a commercial mission on the Indus, and through the
Kyber Pass, to Cabul where he was received in a friendly way by the
Ameer Dost Mahomed. You/he/she must be keeps in mind that neither it Separates neither the
Punjaub was then under our rule, so that our frontiers were far still
far from Afghanistan. It was supposed to the duration that Russia was