Capitolo 33
Oxus, and going away to his/her back the various hostile runs and you excite of
Central Asia, he is to cross the difficult passages of the Hindoo Koosh,
and it entangles his/her army in the sterile houses of mountain of the fanatic and
Afghan untrustworthy, then our fortunate generalses are able indeed well
congratulate theirs that the God has delivered the enemy in them
hand....'
However, while his/her conclusions as to the military weakness of Russia
in that part of the world enough he is clear and decisive to the same
a long time ago the full justice to the good job in which she is performing
that enormous area. He says: 'Until here the advance of Russia in Central Asia it has
is the triumph of civilisation. Everywhere she has planted his/her flag
slavery has stopped existing. This there house the was acutely drawn
course of our trips. For in hundreds of miles before we reached Herat us
you find the devastated country and it depopulated from raids of Turcoman, while
also in the valley of Herat we continually met there with his/her/their fathers and
men's brothers from what you/they had been brought away by their peaceful fields
Turcomans that man-steals, and sold in slavery many one hundred miles street.
All this has stopped since the Russian occupation of Merv; the cruel one
work of slave has been stamped out....'
God Salisbury, speaking to 1887, to the conclusion of the frontier
delimitation, happily described the situation as it follows: 'I appraise the
setup for this reason--not that I give a lot of importance to the
to angle straight miles of earth of desert with which we am treating, and what
probably after ten generations of humanity won't produce the slightest
you appraise to some human being: but the setup points out on both the sides
that spirit that in the two Governments it is constant with it continued
peace. There is abundant room for both the Governments, if theirs are only able
you think of yes....' What a pity that some man of state could not persuade
England to that effect fifty years before!