. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. and, in Yorkshire; but unable to pass rich on £60 a year, hehad taken his wife and son to live in Bruges. With a couragenot to be over-praised he decided to make the perilous attemptto rescue the two of^cers, the younger of whom he knew per-sonally and greatly esteemed, or at least to place their fatebeyond doubt, and in July, 1843, he inserted a letter in theMorning Herald, addressed to all the of^cers of the British army,calling for companions or funds to help him in the
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. and, in Yorkshire; but unable to pass rich on £60 a year, hehad taken his wife and son to live in Bruges. With a couragenot to be over-praised he decided to make the perilous attemptto rescue the two of^cers, the younger of whom he knew per-sonally and greatly esteemed, or at least to place their fatebeyond doubt, and in July, 1843, he inserted a letter in theMorning Herald, addressed to all the of^cers of the British army,calling for companions or funds to help him in the enterprise. I merely want, he wrote, the expenses of my journey, and OLD BOKHARA AND ITS HORRORS 311 not one single farthing as a compensation, even in case ofcomplete success. The money was found, chiefly by a CaptainGrover, one of the officers to whom, as narrated above, thegovernment had refused official countenance; instructions weregiven to all British representatives on his route to afford himhelp; he left London on October 14, 1843; reached Bokharaafter many adventures and in spite of the gravest warnings of. The Approach to the Prison, Bokhara. his certain fate; was detained there a prisoner for a long time;refused to embrace Islam and finally abandoned all hope ofescaping the executioner; was only allowed to go at last inconsequence of letters demanding his release being sent to theAmir by the Shah of Persia; was in such a condition when hereached English friends again in Persia that he wrote: Forfive days poor Colonel Williams was engaged in putting the 312 ALL THE RUSSIAS vermin off my body; and arrived back in London on April12, 1845.* His journey established the fact that the two men he soughtto rescue had been murdered three months before he started^and also that a third British officer, Lieutenant Wyburd, hadbeen killed by the Amir. For the quietude of soul of thefriends of those murdered officers, Colonel Stoddart and Cap-tain Conolly, wroteDr. Wolff, I haveto
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