Excerpt from Through Russian Central Asia

Since I was a child and steeped myself in the Arabian Nights, ' I have never been so enthralled as I was by an article of yours called Towards Turkestan, ' which appeared in The Times long since, as it seems now (last May I am an Old, tired recluse. I have been reading for over sixty years. I'm very much extinct, but my desert also blossomed with your roses.

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