Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand

CHAPTER II. Page 9

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Return to Teheran Relief of Sunnites, Dervishes, and Hadjis at the Turkish Embassy Author becomes acquainted with a Karavan of Tartar Hadjis returning from Mecca The different Routes The Author determines to join the Hadjis Hadji Bilal Introduction of Author to his future Travelling Companions Route through the Yomuts and the Great Desert decided upon