. 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 epower. During the siege the artillery fired from one hundred to five hundredshots daily, and the infantry used from ten thousand to seventy thousandrounds of ammunition in the same time. Skobeleff sunk a mine under tlierampart, and exj^loded more than a ton of gunpowder at a single blast. Itmade a wide breach, through which the Russian army poured into the fort,with very little opposition on the part of the Turcomans. The latter fledin the
. 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 epower. During the siege the artillery fired from one hundred to five hundredshots daily, and the infantry used from ten thousand to seventy thousandrounds of ammunition in the same time. Skobeleff sunk a mine under tlierampart, and exj^loded more than a ton of gunpowder at a single blast. Itmade a wide breach, through which the Russian army poured into the fort,with very little opposition on the part of the Turcomans. The latter fledin the direction of Merv, but were pursued by the Russian cavalry. Theslaughter is said to have been fearful, and the Russians say that twentythousand Turcomans perished in the siege and capture of Geok )uring the assault and pursuit the infantry fired 273,80-1 rounds, the cav-alry 12,510, and the artillery 5,864 ; 224 military rockets were also used.* Many careful students of the history of Central Asia, continued , consider the siege and cajDture of Geok Tepe the most im- * Marvins The Russians at the Gates of Herat. A NIGHT MAECH. 457. 458 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. portant victory ever acliieved by tlie Rnssians in Turkestan. It openedthe way for tlie Russian advance to the frontier of India, and carried theboundaries of the Empire southward to tliose of Persia. In the interest ofhumanity it was of the greatest importance, as it broke up the system ofman-stealing and its attendant crueUies which tlie Turcomans had prac-tised for centuries. The people of Northern Persia no longer live in con-stant terror of Turcoman raids; the slave-markets of Central Asia areclosed, and doubtless forever. Frank asked if the English Government was as well pleased with theresult of the siege as were the Russians. Mr. Ivanovich said he did not know exactly how the English regardedthe victory, but from the tone of their press and the utterances of Britishstatesmen, he
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