From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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... arranged to travel through the continent of Asia , from Peking to St. Petersburg , and told my friends of what I proposed to do , they said I should leave that kind of thing to explorers . People thought that I was about to enter on a ...
... arranged to travel through the continent of Asia , from Peking to St. Petersburg , and told my friends of what I proposed to do , they said I should leave that kind of thing to explorers . People thought that I was about to enter on a ...
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... arrangement with the Mongol headmen , and of the subsidy which the Tsung - li - Yamen pays to those headmen , one half , I am told , is provided by the Russian Government . M. Pavlov very properly advised me that the formal application ...
... arrangement with the Mongol headmen , and of the subsidy which the Tsung - li - Yamen pays to those headmen , one half , I am told , is provided by the Russian Government . M. Pavlov very properly advised me that the formal application ...
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... arrange- ments of any kind , but they are , nevertheless , kept moderately clean by the fact that cattle manure is in great demand for cementing the dried mud of which the houses are built . Of bathing arrangements there are none , the ...
... arrange- ments of any kind , but they are , nevertheless , kept moderately clean by the fact that cattle manure is in great demand for cementing the dried mud of which the houses are built . Of bathing arrangements there are none , the ...
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... arranged to extend the wires to Ourga , the capital of Mongolia , and to Kiakhta , the furthest away Chino - Mongolian town on the Siberian frontier . The work , indeed , is actually in progress . Rough as the road may be , blocked with ...
... arranged to extend the wires to Ourga , the capital of Mongolia , and to Kiakhta , the furthest away Chino - Mongolian town on the Siberian frontier . The work , indeed , is actually in progress . Rough as the road may be , blocked with ...
Pàgina 41
... arranged quickly in China , and our arrangements at Kalgan included the settling of our transport through Mongolia , the hiring and repairing of vehicles , the purchase of Mongolian riding saddles , and of Mongolian sheep- skin cloaks ...
... arranged quickly in China , and our arrangements at Kalgan included the settling of our transport through Mongolia , the hiring and repairing of vehicles , the purchase of Mongolian riding saddles , and of Mongolian sheep- skin cloaks ...
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