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Across Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland

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The narrative recounts an overland journey from northwestern Europe across Russia, the Caspian, and Persia toward India, blending episodic travelogue, local description, and practical reportage. The author records landscapes, cities, transport, customs formalities, and anecdotes—sometimes including two pet kittens carried as companions—while describing oilfields, ports, bazaars, fortifications, and roads. Encounters with officials, legations, and military units lead to observations on commerce, banking, currency, education, and reform, and on Anglo-Russian competition for influence. Chapters alternate vivid scene-setting, technical explanations (waterworks, wells, railways), and social commentary on industry, trade routes, and daily life.

  • Vanity, i. 122
  • Vegetation, i. 59, 62
  • Veziroff Gazumbek, Russian agent, Birjand, ii. 107
  • Volcanic
    • formation, i. 71; ii. 128
    • region, ii. 13
  • Votka, i. 19
  • Yadgar, ii. 408
  • Yate, C.S.I., C.M.G., Colonel C. E., Agent to Governor-General of Beluchistan, ii. 441
  • Yezd, i. 381
    • citadel, i. 385
    • European community, i. 391
    • Government of, i. 385
    • Governor of, i. 385
    • health of, i. 390
    • hospital, i. 390
    • population of, i. 383
    • trade, i. 383
  • Zagar Mengal tribe, ii. 395
  • Zaidan, ii. 260
    • history of, ii. 219-232
      • architecture, ii. 226
      • Bellew, ii. 222, 225, 230
      • Canals, ii. 227
      • Canals dry, ii. 232
      • caravanserai at Kala-i-fath, ii. 231
      • Deshtak, ii. 222
      • devastation of, ii. 220, 221
      • Goldsmid, Sir F., ii. 223, 230
      • Jalalabad, ii. 222
      • Kayani Kings, ii. 231
      • Kayani Maliks, ii. 221
      • Nad-i-Ali, ii. 222
      • Nadir Shah, ii. 231
      • Peshawaran, ii. 222, 223, 225
      • Pulki, ii. 222
      • Rud-i-Perian, ii. 228
      • Safavi Dynasty, ii. 221
      • Shah Rukh Shah, ii. 220
      • Taimur Lang, ii. 221
    • the great city, ii. 187, 194-232
      • Arabic inscriptions, ii. 215-217, 223
      • Chir-pir or tomb of 40 saints, ii. 214
      • citadel, ii. 206
      • covered passages, ii. 206
      • curiosities found at, ii. 196
      • extensive graveyard, ii. 211
      • Goldsmid, Sir F., ii. 202
      • graves, ii. 214
      • high wall and towers, ii. 205
      • ice store-houses, ii. 203
      • imposing citadel, ii. 204
      • Kala-i-fath, ii. 194, 213, 220, 226, 230, 231
      • Lash Yuwain, ii. 194, 209, 226
      • Length and breadth, ii. 208
      • length of, ii. 209, 220, 232
      • Mil-i-Zaidan pillar, ii. 201
      • objects found at, ii. 215
      • oil lamps excavated at, ii. 217
      • outer towers, ii. 203
      • protecting fortresses, ii. 220
      • remains of double wall, ii. 210
      • Rud-i-Nasru, ii. 213
        • Canal, ii. 208
      • Sand accumulations, ii. 213
      • strange image excavated at, ii. 218
      • Sykes, Major, ii. 202, 228
      • Tablets, ii. 216
      • Unroofed structures, ii. 211
      • Wall, continuation of, ii. 207
  • Zein-ed-din tower, i. 264
  • Zemahlabad fort, ii. 155
  • Zen-u-din, i. 413
  • Ziarats, ii. 337, 352, 356, 398, 423, 438
  • Ziegler & Co., i. 134, 152, 318
  • Zil-es-Sultan, i. 323, 349
    • an audience of, i. 350
  • Zirreh, ii. 280
  • Zorap, ii. 270
  • Zoroaster, i. 396
  • Zoroastrian religion, i. 398

THE END.

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