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it seems to have been that the Turcomans admitted that they was
squatting himself/herself/itself on Afghan earth, and it was responsible to pay taxes and every year
they paid anything as a recognition of Afghan rights; but so long
as this was done, the Afghans reputed them as a protection against
the Tekke the further north, and he/she left a lot them to them.'
The appointment of a Committee Unita of Russian and British officers
to delimit the northern frontiers of Afghanistan tried of great value,
not only in to earn until here but little information respect to districts
known, but also because his/her job joined brims to procreate the feelings of
respect and starting among the two pertained to nations.
His/her works started of autumn of 1885 and the relationship of West Lord
Ridgeway, the British Commissioner is full of interest and
encouragement. In an article in the 'nineteenth century' of October,
1887, on the completion of his/her job he gives some details of the
country, and also of the position of Russia in Central Asia that is
value quoting. As to the Afghan border he says: 'The three or four
one hundred miles country through that the north-western and new frontier of
Runs of Afghanistan are a sandy desert, without trees, without water, except where it
you/he/she is crossed by north south from the Heri-Rood, the Murghab and the
Oxus. Only cultivable earth is on the banks of these rivers; but in
spring time, after the snows in winter have melted, the plans that he interposes
the good pasture allows him for sheep.' But perhaps the most important part of
its article is its perspective of the position of Russia in Central Asia: 'If
some general Russian', he writes, 'it was so unwise as to try the
invasion of India, and counting on the only line of slightly built
bars that connect the Caspian one with the Oxus, and what responsible are in
you spend the summer to be jammed from the touching sands of the desert, and in winter from
the falling snows of Sky--if, counting on this bottle-holder and precarious
bases, he is to transport an army through the sterile plans that confine with the