Sketches of Central Asia (1868) / Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia
SKETCHES OF CENTRAL ASIA.
ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS
MY TRAVELS, ADVENTURES,
AND ON THE
ETHNOLOGY OF CENTRAL ASIA.
PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PESTH
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. Wm. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL, LONDON.
1868.
Lewis and Son, Printers, Swan Buildings, Moorgate Street.
In the reviews of my Travels in Central Asia, which have issued from the European and American press, I have generally been reproached with scantiness of details and scrappiness of treatment;—in a word, with having said much less than I could have said about my journey from the Bosphorus to Samarkand,—so rich in varied adventures and experiences.
Now, I will not deny that such a charge has not been quite unfairly levelled against me.
While I was writing my memoirs, during the first three months of my stay in London, after my year-long wanderings in Asia, I had very great trouble in accustoming myself to the idea of being firmly settled down. I always kept fancying myself bound on the morrow to pack up and extend my travels with the caravan: hence my irresolution and hasty procedure. Moreover, I was quite a stranger in the domain of travelling, and deemed it my duty now to keep something back for mere decency; anon to leave out something else, as of inferior interest. Hence many an episode was left untouched, many a picture remained but a feeble sketch.
Ármin Vámbéry
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ARMINIUS VÁMBÉRY,
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
SKETCHES OF CENTRAL ASIA.
DERVISHES AND HADJIS.
CHAPTER II.
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY DERVISH LIFE.
I.
II.
III.
CHAPTER III.
AMONGST THE TURKOMANS.
CHAPTER IV.
THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERT.
CHAPTER V.
THE TENT AND ITS INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER VI.
THE COURT OF KHIVA.
CHAPTER VII
JOY AND SORROW.
1. Birth.
2. Marriage.
3. Death.
CHAPTER VIII.
HOUSE, FOOD, AND DRESS.
CHAPTER IX.
FROM KHIVA To KUNGRAT AND BACK.
CHAPTER X.
MY TARTAR.
CHAPTER XI.
THE ROUND OF LIFE IN BOKHARA.
CHAPTER XII.
BOKHARA, THE HEAD QUARTERS OF MOHAMMEDANISM.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVE LIFE IN CENTRAL ASIA.
CHAPTER XIV.
PRODUCTIVE POWER OF THE THREE OASIS COUNTRIES OF TURKESTAN.
1. The Vegetable Kingdom.
2. The Animal Kingdom.
3. Mineral Kingdom.
CHAPTER XV.
ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF BOKHARA.
Bokhara, the Capital.
The Environs of Bokhara.
Tugshade and Mokanna, the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
CHAPTER XVI.
ETHNOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE TURANIAN AND IRANIAN RACES OF CENTRAL ASIA.
CHAPTER XVII.
IRANIANS.
CHAPTER XVIII.
LITERATURE IN CENTRAL ASIA.
CHAPTER XIX.
RIVALRY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ENGLAND IN CENTRAL ASIA.
1. Russian Conquests in Central Asia during the last three years.
2. Russia's Future Policy.
3. Russia's Views on India; and English Optimists.
4. Russian Gains and the Disadvantages Of English Policy.
5. Advice to England for the Purpose Of Averting the Danger.
6. The General Interests of the Question.
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