Capitolo 31
Samarcand. Merv, previously a city of the importance but of slow a lake
village in the desert, was also busy. These acquisitions of Russia,
brought defeasible far in districts removed from India, it would not appear to
you behave some special consideration on our behalf; but as the Southerner
frontiers of Russia became so conterminous for a long distance with
Northern Persia, and also with some districts of Afghanistan, them new
position that it possibly involved sketches against our Indian it was considered
Empire, and remonstrations were made by us, more especially as you greet
the occupation of Merv. [the Footnote: _Central Asia_, No 2, 1885.]
In a point of view of strategical the question would not seem to be of
a lot of importance, and you/he/she would probably have allowed to fall; but to the beginnings of 1885 the
Russian attacked and they drove out the Afghan troops of Penjdeh, a small,
until here almost unknown village in the desert. It was an arrogant person
you measure, and the relationships among the two Governments, British and
I snore that it was already tense rather it became critical, and it wages war to
a moment seemed to be almost inevitable.
It is not necessary, neither it is able him/it both desirable, now to recapitulate the
details of this serious crisis; because, happily, owing to the prudence
practiced by both the Governments, the danger it gradually passed away, a Joint
Being of Committee agreed on, to meet himself/herself/themselves on the frontier, and to bring as to
his/her delimitation. You/he/she can be however well, as to mention that it seems
rather doubtful if Penjdeh to the duration completely belonged to
Afghanistan. Frontiers in the east are proverbially uncertain and
moving, and in our his/her own official maps, not very you crave first the
events in question, it was marked out as of the Afghan border.
Colonel Stewart, bringing in 1884 on the northern frontier of
Afghanistan, and alluding to Penjdeh, says that was busy from
Turcomans, and he described so the position: 'The state of business