. 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 Khisti andAk Tapa, where they havecleared out the old irrigationcanals, set their ploughs andother implements at work, andseem to be forgetting altogeth-er their former mode of have settled into villages,but live in kibitkas in prefer-ence to houses of mud or othersolid materials. Consideringtheir recent subjugation, theyare quite friendly with theKussians; they know we willnever allow them to resumetheir predatory life, but as lo
. 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 Khisti andAk Tapa, where they havecleared out the old irrigationcanals, set their ploughs andother implements at work, andseem to be forgetting altogeth-er their former mode of have settled into villages,but live in kibitkas in prefer-ence to houses of mud or othersolid materials. Consideringtheir recent subjugation, theyare quite friendly with theKussians; they know we willnever allow them to resumetheir predatory life, but as longas they behave themselves theywill find us to be kind masters,and our military and engineer-ing work in their country willassure them a good market fortheir surplus produce. I asked the gentleman totell me the difference betweenPul-i-Khisti and Pul-i-Khatun,which we had read so muchabout in the newspapers, at thetime of the conflict betweenthe Russians and Afghans. Pul-i-Khatun is on theIleri-Rud or Tejend River, a few miles south of Sarakhs. In the Persian language pul means bridge,and khatun lady, so that Pul-i-Khatun may be translated Bridge of. SARIK TURCOMAN WOMAN. 470 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. the Lady. The bridge that bears this name is said to have been erectedin the time of Tamerlane, the great conqueror, at the request of one ofthe hidies of his family. It is of brick, in six arches, and has not beenrepaired for a long time; the central arch is broken, but the others arein serviceable condition. Pul-i-Khisti means Bridge of Bricks, and is over the MurghabKiver, where that stream unites with the Kushk. It became famous asthe scene of the fight between the Russians and Afghans, in the early part
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