. Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. rts being interlacedwith willow, whilst the front parts serve as axle is somewhat curved below, and owing theretothe position of the wheels is slanting, so that thedistance between the lower felloes is greater thanbetween the upper, the breadth of the track of thearba being 9 feet. These carts are the only wheeledvehicles used by the natives, and are exceedinglyclumsy, but they cannot easily be upset, and can gothrough water 4 feet deep without wetting the load. FROM KHIVA TO TASHAUZ. 3i7 Our road lay for the first
. Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. rts being interlacedwith willow, whilst the front parts serve as axle is somewhat curved below, and owing theretothe position of the wheels is slanting, so that thedistance between the lower felloes is greater thanbetween the upper, the breadth of the track of thearba being 9 feet. These carts are the only wheeledvehicles used by the natives, and are exceedinglyclumsy, but they cannot easily be upset, and can gothrough water 4 feet deep without wetting the load. FROM KHIVA TO TASHAUZ. 3i7 Our road lay for the first 8 miles through cultivatedland, then crossed 2 miles of steppe with a spur ofsand-hills on our right. Of the two Englishmen(Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Shakespear) whopassed this way before me, the latter mentions avillage, about 9 miles north-west of Khiva, calledZaca, where he stayed for a night, previous to receiv-ing into his charge the Russian prisoners on themorrow. This, I suppose, is the place on the mapmarked Zeikesh, through which we must have passed,. A KHIVAN ARBA. but without noticing it, as also the village Kanabash, onthe canal of that name, a short distance beyond. At 1 oclock we reached Kosh-ku-pryk, 11 milesfrom Khiva, a place marked on the maps as a town,but only a hamlet of less than 20 houses. Here we saton a platform in the street, in front of a shop, dranktea, and ate bread and melons, taking notice of thedexterous fashion in which the natives cut them up.* * Drawing his knife from the girdle, the man first cuts off a morsel ateach end, slices out a quarter of the fruit lengthwise, and clears awaythe seeds. Then he deftly passes his knife along lengthwise, justinside the skin, cutting under the pulp about half way across; after 318 RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA. After the feast, Yakoob asked me for money to payfor it, which, of course, I gave him, though I was stillguest of the Khan, as before I had been of the Emir,when everything was found for me. Yakoob told
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