Chapter D: Danchenko, Namirovitch, on Russian conquest of India, 238
Dariel, Gorge of, 5;
the “Kremlin” of, 7
De Vesselitsky, M., 208
Deer-farming, 219 _et seq._
Dengil-Tepe taken by Kuropatkin, 65
Denmark, conquest of, by Attila, 48
_Derevnyi_, 122
Desert, the, railways in, 17;
wheatfields in, 19, 20;
antiquity of, 20;
its flora, 20
Dockers, Persian, 12
Dolinadalin, 3
Dostoieffsky, Fedor, 210;
on Russia’s demand for Constantinople, 242
Dukhobors in Canada, 264
Duncani, the, 36
_Dunkan_, a, 120
E
Earthquakes, frequency of, 57, 114, 156
Egypt, the shepherd dynasty of, 44
Electricity, a Caucasian contract for, 4
Emigrants, house-building by, 153-4;
a suggested export tax on, 259
Emigration, compulsory, 260
Emigration, Russian, 138 _et seq._;
inducements for, 141;
restrictions concerning, 142;
concessions on rail and steamer, 144 _et seq._
England and India, 241
England and Russia: the question of India, 241-4;
rivalry of empire, 244-6;
the trade treaty, 246-7;
the basis of friendship, 247-8
English, uneasiness of, at Russian progress, 66, 245
Ethnology and Central Asia, 44
Europe, after-the-war prospects of, 249 _et seq._
F
Factory hands, emigration of, 140
_Falanga_, hairy-legged, 116
Falconry, the Kirghiz knowledge of, 200
Falcons in Bokhara, 29
Fatalism, Mohammedanism and, 42
Ferghan, grants in aid of emigration to, 152
Flint-hunting in the Caucasus, 5, 6
Fortoug, 3
Froude as pro-Russian, 239
G
Gavrilovka, 175
Geok-Tepe, 21;
the railway station of, 21;
storming of, 68
Georgians, 4, 16
Germany, conquered by Attila, 48;
preparations for Great War in, 214;
an enemy of Anglo-Russian friendship, 239;
and Constantinople, 242;
white population in, 249
_Gimnasistki_, 214
Gladstone, Right Hon, W. E., a pro-Russian, 239
Goths, the, 47, 48
Great War, the, Germany’s ambitions, 67;
reception of news of declaration of war at Semipalatinsk, 213;
Germany’s preparations for, 214;
England’s unpreparedness for, 231
Gregoriefsky, 197
Grosnoe, 99
Grozdny, 10
Gusinaya Pristan, 216
H
Hassan, Sultan, Mosque of, 40
Havana cigars in Kopal, 182
Huns, the, 45, 46 _et seq._;
of Attila, 48;
Mongolian, 49
_Hydrotechnics_, Russian, 190, 193 _et seq._
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