. Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. ion began now to move, and with theirfaces towards the exit, of course they had a full viewof the infidels. The Emirs men were ready, not tosay in haste, to take me off, but I had noticed onething that I was anxious to inspect. It very muchresembled a font, and, remembering that NestorianChristianity had once been known in the land, Iwondered whether this object could have come downfrom those mediaeval times. Accordingly, I went upto, and looked around, over, and under it, if perchancethere might be on it some Christian emblem
. Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. ion began now to move, and with theirfaces towards the exit, of course they had a full viewof the infidels. The Emirs men were ready, not tosay in haste, to take me off, but I had noticed onething that I was anxious to inspect. It very muchresembled a font, and, remembering that NestorianChristianity had once been known in the land, Iwondered whether this object could have come downfrom those mediaeval times. Accordingly, I went upto, and looked around, over, and under it, if perchancethere might be on it some Christian emblem or device;but whilst so doing I was quickly surrounded, thecrowd looking, I fancied, not too well pleased, so thatif ever I felt nervous in Bokhara, it was at that moment,for I thought they might misinterpret what I was doing,and set upon me, as, without provocation, a man assaultedand attempted to kill Dr. Schuyler while examining theshrine of a saint. I did not linger, therefore, over myinspection ; but, seeing nothing that led me to suppose BOKHARA THE MEDRESSE OF ABDUL AZIZ KHAN. I00 RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA. the basin to be of Christian origin, I joined my con-ductors, who took me out of a side door, sent toFazul to bring our horses there, and hurried us off,seemingly glad to get us away. There were some few other Muhammadan religiousbuildings we entered in Bokhara. One I have noteddown as the Jumma mosque of Abdul Aziz Khan, saidto have been built about 200 years, and to hold 2,000people. There is also a medresse, named after that sameKhan. At the Mosque of Hazret Imlah, 132 yearsold, we saw the tomb of the great saint Imlah, where-on were two spear-heads, and above, a pole with ahorse-tail suspended. Lastly, at the Hazret HaifaKhu-daidat was a covered cistern, where sick peopledrink the water for recovery. Pious turbaned Yakoobwent down to taste, but, having so done, made agrimace, and said the water stank. We saw com-paratively few monumental inscriptions, but at t
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