. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. ng muchkindly anxiety about a piano hehad undertaken to see safely on itsway to Mr. Macartney, the BritishResident at Kashgar, which hadgone astray somewhere betweenhere and the Caspian. On myhomeward journey I was fortunateenough to discover it and get itsent forward—a fact which woulddoubtless be made known at oncein Kashgar, as a telegraph lineruns from here via Vernoye. I do not think that Osh willlong remain a Russian is weakly held byChina; the rule
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. ng muchkindly anxiety about a piano hehad undertaken to see safely on itsway to Mr. Macartney, the BritishResident at Kashgar, which hadgone astray somewhere betweenhere and the Caspian. On myhomeward journey I was fortunateenough to discover it and get itsent forward—a fact which woulddoubtless be made known at oncein Kashgar, as a telegraph lineruns from here via Vernoye. I do not think that Osh willlong remain a Russian is weakly held byChina; the rule of the local Chi-nese ofificials is barbarous, andtaxes are collected by torture whenother methods fail; great discontent, therefore, reigns; and Rus-sia has w^ithin her borders, and under her hand, Mohammedanrefugees w^ho could be slipped like hounds to raise rebellion. TheBritish Resident is compelled, by the deliberate withholding ofsupport from home—going so far as to forbid him to wear auniform—to play a minor role, while his Russian colleague isalmost master in the place. Nor do I see that an arrangement. Osh and no Mistake-of My Journey. -the End 348 ALL THE RUSSIAS which gave Kashgaria and Kulja—for the latter would inevitablyfollow the former—to Russia, need raise any objections in Eng-land. It is her natural line of expansion; it is out of any possiblesphere of ours; and it would substitute civilisation for extortionand cruelty. For my last word about Central Asia must be—and it was the dominant thought in my mind as I deciphered thefaded word Osh on the official boundary-post and realisedthat I had reached the end of my long journey—that Russiahas destroyed nothing there—except the Turkoman horse andthe Turkoman carpet—that was of any value, and that she hasbrought peace, prosperity, and probably quite as much libertyas is good for those who enjoy it. ECONOMICS CHAPTER XXII M. DE WITTE AND HIS POLICY FROM the unique and impressive spectacle of absol
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