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2 legs, a very comfortable contrivance. During two days, while
3 we stopped on our way on the left bank of the Amoo (Ox us
4 river), I did not stir from this warm abode ; for the kadjevahs
5 are ample enough to allow one to keep in them a charcoal fire, as
6 also to perform the required necessities ; and the weather was
7 rather disagreeable ; rain, wind and snow varying alternately.
8 Thirty pairs of similar kadjevahs, ranged in a square, formed
9 a large yard. Several of them were filled with slaves (Persians
10 and Ilozarahs). In my neighbourhood there was one in which
11 there were four little girls ; but as they were carefully watched,
12 it was difficult to get a sight of them ; they were going to
13 Bokhara, to be sold there.
14 The Nawaub had made me a present of two ponies, called
15 chargoosh ( i.e ., four-eared, because of their ears having been
16 slit) ; and they were of great use to me in the Desert from Cabul
17 to Russia. They instinctively dig up the roots below the snow
18 for food.
19 On my arrival at Bokhara, I delivered the letter of recom-
20 mendation which I had from the Nawaub, addressed to the
21 minister Hoshbegi. His first inquiry was, whether I knew
22 Jussulf Wolff and Alexander Burnes? “ Wolff',' ” continued he,
23 “ was a very good-hearted man ; but as for Burnes, he was a
24 deceiver, because he told me, up to the last moment, that his
25 intention was to go to England, via Russia, whereas he returned
26 to Hindostan, via Khiva.11 He was convinced that Burnes was
27 a spy, and asked me if I would act as he had done. I was told
28 that there were 600 Russian slaves at Bokhara, most of them
29 fishermen from the Caspian sea, or prisoners from the frontier.
30 During my four months1 stay at Bokhara, a Russian spy, Mon-
31 sieur D , was also there, whom the governor of Orenburg
32 had sent with presents to the government, and who, although a
33 Frenchman, imitated the musselmans so well, as not to be recog-
34 nised as an European, for he knew botli the Arabic and Persian
35 languages ; but theNogais (Tartarian musselmans, under Russian
36 protection) informed against him, and urged his being decapitated,
37 lest he should inform against them for having transgressed the
38 ukase, according to which, no Russian subject was allowed to go