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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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looked out of the door of my tent, I saw some twenty Cossacks
with six officers riding by, and the Russian flag carried in front.
I sent out a servant with my card and invitation to the officers
to come in and have some refreshments. Some of them came
in, and the chief officer was introduced to me as Colonel
Yonoff. He and all of them were dressed in loose "khaki"
blouses, with baggy pantaloons and high boots, and they wore
the ordinary peaked Russian cap, covered with white cloth.
Colonel Yonoff also wore on his breast a white enamel Maltese
cross, which I recognized as the Cross of St. George, the most
coveted Russian decoration, and I at once congratulated him
upon holding so distinguished an order. Colonel Yonoff was a
modest, quiet-mannered man, of a totally different stamp to
Captain Grombtchevsky. He had less of the bonhomie of the
latter, and talked little; but he was evidently respected by his
officers, and they told me he had greatly distinguished himself
in the Khivan campaign. I gave the Russian officers some tea
and Russian wine, which Mr. Lutsch, the consul's secretary, had
very kindly procured for me from Margillan; and I then told
Colonel Yonoff that reports had reached me that he was
proclaiming to the Kirghiz that the Pamirs were Russian terri-
tory, and asked him if this was the case. He said it was so,
and he showed me a map with the boundary claimed by the
Russians coloured on it. This boundary included the whole of
the Pamirs except the Tagh-dum-bash, and extended as far
down as the watershed of the Hindu-Kush by the Khora Bhort
Pass.
The Russian officers stayed with me for about an hour, and
then went off to make their own camp arrangements, asking
me, however, to come and dine with them that evening. When
I went round to them, I found that they were doubled up in
very small tents. Three of them lived in a tent which was not
high enough to stand upright in, and at dinner there was just
room for seven of us to squat on the ground, with a tablecloth
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