... that a Deh-bashi (serjeant) of Jezailchis ' with a dozen men who had been out foraging, or on piquet, when the army of the Persian Shah was campaigning against the Turkomans near Merv, lost their way on their return to the army, and spent the night in the ...

... been the habitat of wild Tarkoman tribes, and has sunk from the condition of a flourishing city to a wretched village. The Persian Shah still claims it as Persian territory. Bokhara is still nominally independent, and the Russians have never interfered in ...