. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across came forward he emptiedhis sack on the ground, and an accountant made note of the number ofskulls and the name of their owner. The payment was not in money, but in robes of honor, which wereof different colors, according to the number of slain to each warriors cred-it. Some received the robe of forty heads, others the robe of twenty, andothers that of ten, five, or four. It was like the different degrees of thedecorations awarded by the rul
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across came forward he emptiedhis sack on the ground, and an accountant made note of the number ofskulls and the name of their owner. The payment was not in money, but in robes of honor, which wereof different colors, according to the number of slain to each warriors cred-it. Some received the robe of forty heads, others the robe of twenty, andothers that of ten, five, or four. It was like the different degrees of thedecorations awarded by the rulers of the nations of Europe, or the rewardsof merit issued by a school-teacher to diligent and well-behaved pupils. Another time Vambery was in the public square of Khiva whenabout three hundred prisoners of war were brought in. They were sepa-rated into two divisions, those who had not reached their fortieth year, andwere to be sold as slaves or given as presents, being placed in one were chained together and led away, and then the old men werebrought forward for punishment; and what do you suppose it was ? TURCOMAN BARBARITIES. 44^. TURCOMAN TROPHY—A. RUSSIAN HEAD. 446 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. These gray-bearded old men were tied liand and foot and placed flaton their backs on the ground. Then their eves were gouged out, the exe-cutioner kneeling on the breast of each to perform his dreadful time when he finished with a victim he deliberately wiped his knifeon the latters flowing beard. Yambery says the scene will make himshudder as long as he lives, and no wonder. And yet he found the people of Khiva full of pious charity. Thesame khan who had ordered this cruel treatment of prisoners of war,loaded the supposed dervish and his companions with presents, and showedthem every kindness. When Vambery left in the direction of Bokhara,he was mounted on a good donkey, and had plenty of clothing, provisions,and money, which had been given h
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