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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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spread in the middle—three officers on each side, and one at the
head. No wonder these Russians thought my camp arrange-
ments luxurious. I had what is known as a field-officer's
Kabul tent, about eight feet in length, breadth, and height, and
with a bath-room and double fly. I had, too, a bed, table, and
chair. Such luxury filled the Russians with astonishment; but
they were merely making a rapid raid, while I had set out from
India to travel for more than a year. The whole tent and equip-
ment of camp furniture was not a pony-load, and when there
is no necessity to stint transport, as there is not on the Pamirs,
for a small party, it it much better to take a whole pony-load,
and make one's self comfortable, than to take half a load and be
miserable. When there is any necessity for it, British officers
go without any tent at all; but when they can make themselves
comfortable, as a rule they do.
We squeezed into the little tent, and proceedings com-
menced with drinking the inevitable glass of vodka. Then
followed a dinner, which for its excellence astonished me quite
as much as my camp arrangements had astonished the Russians.
Russians always seem to be able to produce soups and stews of
a good wholesome, satisfying nature, such as native servants
from India never seem able to imitate. The Russians had
vegetables, too—a luxury to me—and sauces and relishes, and,
besides vodka, two different kinds of wine and brandy.
Though only one of the six Russians spoke French, they were
all very hospitable and cordial, and at the conclusion of dinner
Colonel Yonoff proposed the health of Queen Victoria, while I
proposed that of the Emperor of Russia.
There were, besides Colonel Yonoff, a staff-officer from St.
Petersburgh, two Cossack officers, a doctor, and a surveyor
named Benderski, who had been to Kabul with the Russian
mission of 1878, and had also surveyed the Pamirs with
Ivanoff's expedition of 1883. Colonel Yonoff now showed me
the survey which his party had just made, and the route they
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