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0042 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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have done—and thus the checkered history of Cen-
tral Asia and India has been written for lo! these
many centuries.¹

Again we rumble over black sands, leaving the
gardens and groves of Bokhara behind us. We
have seen the city as Alexander saw it, save that it
was larger, I think, in his day, and perhaps there
were no cotton-fields round about. Now we shall
see Samarcand—glorious from Tamerlane's day—
notable indeed when, as Marcando, it was destroyed
by his great Greek predecessor. A little farther he
marched north-eastward, but Samarcand may fairly
be said to be the proper monument of Alexander's
extremest reach in this direction, and only the Czar's
recent conquests have ever carried European arms
farther into Asia's heart. Here also may be marked
the western verge of China's power, whose long arm
once reached—only to be withdrawn—toward the
great monuments which Tamerlane had left. This
conqueror, who was of the Mongolian, virile strain,