. 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 PLL-l KHlSn AND AK TAiA. of 1885. Each party throws the blame of the affair upon the other; nat-urally enough I think the Afghans were at fault, but as I may be preju-diced on the subject it is not worth while to discuss it. Pul-i-Khisti isclose to Penjdeh, which is nothing more than a mass of ruins where atown once stood; the Russians may be able to make something out of it,and the next time I go there I shouldnt be surprised to find a str
. 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 PLL-l KHlSn AND AK TAiA. of 1885. Each party throws the blame of the affair upon the other; nat-urally enough I think the Afghans were at fault, but as I may be preju-diced on the subject it is not worth while to discuss it. Pul-i-Khisti isclose to Penjdeh, which is nothing more than a mass of ruins where atown once stood; the Russians may be able to make something out of it,and the next time I go there I shouldnt be surprised to find a strong fort. The English wanted to make the boundary so that it would leavePenjdeh in the possession of the Afghans, but we persuaded them thatthe place would be safer in our hands than theirs. You will find on themap the boundaries as they have been arranged, and as long as England THE ROAD TO HERAT. 4T1 keeps to her agreement there is not likely to be any trouble. Of coursewe shall faithfully abide by our promises, but one can never tell when thetreacherous Afghans will cross the boundaries and make depredations uponour peaceful subjects. Then we wil
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