The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-17

Az A W. eon'sn" ~ " P 49,. ~. a.. an..c.I,, e..
hours nf Js,iabt dawn incI,'ded There IL NO
,,non aSsar.a car.es n gre,t loss ~
time an tr.va,,ins At piobt FOR owing 10
the badness of the roads IL il to proceed
SLOWLY in order 10 avoid being unsef Even This
ro"3 not cansa 90 much ds.v INT For the fact that
I'm This Kind az accident usually gets broken
ILL.,, .u ..'. . a. ~ ,,,canra.,.n, d;..n~ Th
dsn-s ~ ,Sn ,sd sra inl,cstsd ~ as~h rc,av on
board which furnishes the traveller with the pro-
eho 81 The traveIlars y.ting room, the
most ornamental of which is the uortrait of His
Ms;s.ty AIcY,ndcr IT which Is ~ he seen AZ everv
sta," We have NOW No jouacr AM, yu.cas. we bsxs
enter.d uno the dessert and the most horse tho oniv
one TO be seen. is lost in isolation. The man who is
stat,onad tber. In MANY cases ivss ahsoutn,v alone
for many Of Ihe most n,aaters are nmm1arred
ard they are forbidden Mi society even 10 that Of the
d"nstic snd farnvarl anima,. 4, the for that they
will feed them on the goyernment forage. This dull
Ifa has NO oract ma, tbc nrda tbat .nstairs them
for there II nothin., for which Rnssinn 10 moro am
iit,ons than :" he Snnctionnrr Of the state They
arr cn,nioxas ~ the fnmrteenth c,ass the Last I'm
grade and thew Occasionally remind an Impatient
Traveller of The fact One OF them whom I had
rather roughly handled having aroused him from his
he'd At two m the mornino. made me this very CHAR
acteristic rrply:"I bog TO tell YOU sir that it IL
ouIx coune ~ bonrs Since M GENERAL nsssa here
who was not half ms insoent ne Won are.
MAcaAmAS nEMEMnERKD.
feuis de route that was the correspondent OF the
New YORK HERALD. spoke to me " Of poor Maceahan,
Enew Ind scarcely becn Ave minutes With Cen
eral Kaufnann himself when he began speaking to me
about him. But let not anticipate. Rerenonsa notre
ts.t;n~ myseif tni bieu one mai with NV Coverings
from The cold. which has become excessive. pify
the courier who have lust seen PASSING This poor
FELLOW Who without stoppin~ more than few min
utes M each most must travel at stretch for twelve
daS. "a Il, NJ, uncovered cart md scated as
hest he can uuon sacks of letters These
couriers that meet will 90 as far as Orenbourg
from where after a DAVIS rest, they will return to
uslkend TINS ompishinp twenty our days Jour
new in the cart out of the Twenty-Five allowed them
It may vol be said that the Russians framed
fhe harlest occupat ons / have mentioned nearly
eli the distractions of the route. A few birds are
Internationally to be met with theee resembling the
partridge in their manner of flight and crows in their
black and gray colors. The telegraph poles which
of FIRST Indicated the route 10 MS Abandoned ms at
Orsk The road is marked by little piles OF earth in
lieu OF milcstones. or by sheafs Of straw some.
times These are alfcyether wsnt;ny Tn this vay we
reach Iryis beginning by the moving sands
1xHAMrANrs OF THE DESERT
IF have only snoke an to Won Of solders Of most
con rers and OF canals IL il not because the countries
have trayersed up 10 this point of nv narrative are
uninhal,i,ed. No I hive spoken of what have seen
7 can now mention what has been told me rcpartinn
the rest and which moreover 7 Jaw Inys.if-but
later these regions; then, are occupied By the h,
nnc;yiixcd ,on,iiat7ons thew vithdrnw from every-
thing which ipdic@tcs civilization. Including the
roade and hiyhways and werc Il not for tho prent
srcs which thsv hint NJ n distance nj nj1ht one
would never know that the steppes wero
occnmed NV ,iv;ng heings was not thint
~, ~ .,,o!!o Kirry;s 9%ust own ~ was tno
uScb occmn;ed with the effort 70 cover tho cronnd
ouickly so as to arrive where could occupy myself
from disarre to distnncc with large nes ~ icc The
driver informed mo that the KRIS protitcd by te
Of the NIGHT 10 take IRON, the frozen lakes
these 80 h,ocFs Which they metca before the firc
TL;a ~, v,.tar .,,st;trtod tha;r NV drJnL f.,v
DAYS later had an opportunity of getting a near
w; ~ thes. Eirois oil, en- a, efs,,S, bidc them.eves
The Cir Dar;a the river along which tho routo winds
No Far nc Taabtcnd hal in Several rlarcs innndatcd
the road and onr vehicle had 10 Axe several deturs
one ~ VIII n hrouo1,t ma inc tho noohhorhood ~
ono ~ those nv.terious fIrcs of which have snokar
hnv -, Thera saw crnvI NJ ,m.n and ,romen
while Others accompanied them on a sort of two.
s.rinoed onitar rather ciunsly made Tho mon vero
III thor facns i,;nr covnr.,i ,r;th ,yr;nLios Th
wooen who were distincnished at n distance nv
,ha;r ,vh;ta trrh.ns hal rfurd Nat faces AZ n,yht
they ann.oreI like thc aIlcgoricnl snces given nv e
sionerE TO the moon. They inhabit tents made per-
SaS,tiv ronnd and stretchcd On = wooden frnmewnrk
The INNER norton il spherical and Is srmountcd by
n sort nf c,,nola wh,ci, r. removed when a Arr ia
madn Several IF These tents const;tnte a village
which hcors M name n. ta exisfcnce in merely mo-
v;sorai A. soon a. tribe gets fircd NJ n i.cnttv
a. rn,,ovs ts tnnts hut not vcrr "a fcr
the Kircis never separate Themselves from their
de,d who are inferred in Cemeteries which are TO be
met With along the road and In which arc 70
ic secn of from fiftecn TO twenty fct
high. of a round or square form. These latter arc
lower In height than the others They arc from ten
To twenty fest long There arc other Cemeteries be.
io,,i, xrInsveiv To rich Families Around them
are 70 Be seen other tombs. built Of dried clay.
have only scrn one compose.i Of burnt bricks Tho
nomadic spirt of the Krgs has been for the Russon
amthorites q dificulty which they have turned by
disp,nsinu with the classifcation by village The
veo.raphv OF the country has been cstabished by
Observation-Disclosures OF aboui thousand VILLAGES and
euch of tneso arrondisscments In indicated Inv a
simpIe stake OF wool with the imporial colors
several az these stakes form a proyince These
white and black stakes which one encounters
along the roads mark te advance of Russtn in Cen
trn Ssin and nccordiny MS thew reccde from Europo
and the country becomes morn and mon, desolate
the traveller asks himself what can be the motive OF
Russa i'm sending her troops there OF course there
cnn be only one reply to this mental query and that
is-Ipdiu II this be- not the object in view as we'll
MIGHT she seek TO conouer the SHOWS OF the Hima-
l.yas for the simple pleasure of nanting her flag on
the hirhcst of their summits This would be folly
and tho Rnssans are no fools
A pEsoLA1x SCENE
But am wandering from the steppe which, by this
tmo har become a desert Its sadness has chaugcd
into desolation We should like to Nv over H. but
there are no means OF adyancinc oucker the horses
which made from seven TO eight miles an hour hay-
inc been replaced by camcis which make only two az
most and which continually utter their peculiar
d.sorrecabe cry This crossing of the desert prop.
criy speaking lasts about four DAYS during which
we pass mt few miles distance the Sea of Aral of
which however VIC do not obtain view Every
son OF Iife has dsappeared the birds have fed and
tho ground liz covered with sleot, while here and
thcr, fcx dirty looking herbs and cranes pep ont
So, tho ~, 81 ga ,,oItTJ ,,o,v - -