Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29

shores of the Caspian in wre5ohed,
starving candltion, with only 1000 OF
their camels. In 1910 another attempt
was made, and up TO 1869 and 1870
there were constant and serious causes
of provocation.
The Khivans defied the ear and all
his army, and felt themselves entirely
protected by the Notifications with
which nature had encompassed them
| in the form of desert. In 1872, how
ever, n new expedition was sent out
under command of General Hartmann,
who had conquered eastern Turkestan,
with larger force and better equip
ment than any previous party had been
provided with. Accompanying the expe-
dition was his imperial highness the
Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovitcl,
and the Grand Duke Eugene, cousins
of the car There was much oppo-
sition to the undertaking in Russia,
and the vote in the imperial council,
presided over by the emperor in per-
son, stood 35 to 9 in favor, with Prime
Gortchakoff, the prime minister, in
the negative.
| General Kaufman was given full
movers and was authorized TO enter
into negotiations with the khan for
his submission and proteetorate from
Russia similar to that to which the
emir of Bokhara had recently accent
ed
made up the expedition and every pre-
caution was taken for its safely. As
the column advanced explorers vera
sent ahead to find water and to dig
wells in anticipation of the approach
of the troops In that way line OF
water holes now marks the Russian
trail from Tashkend to the Aral sea,
but there were wide plateaus of sand
where no water could be found, and
for several weeks General Kaufman
led his weary and thirsty men hither
and thither until the desert of Kill
Kun was strewn with the skeletons
| anu lHE Dthlco VI Cnhlclot Ioi btS
and human beings. camp equipage, OF
ficers' baggage, rifles and other mu
nitions of war. Much ammunition and
stores which had TO be abandoned
were buried in the sand with the in
tention of sending out attachments to
recover them OF the $4,000 camels
with which the expedition started only
| l 200 survived, and only twelve or fif-
Iteen horses out of several thousand.
When half his men were lost Kauf-
mann's imperious spirit was sunk so
deeply in despair that he wrote pitt.
full valedictory explaining and defend
ing his action, and gave orders that
| if anything should happen to him the
command of the remnant OF the eXpe-
dition was to be given, not to General
Goloyatcheff, the next in rank, but TO
| Colonel Trotzky, his chief of staff
The limit of endurance was almost
reached, and the entire command
would have persisted within a few
days, when the scouts happened TO
| S"ptuit ihSStu iNi' ShiIf hhO iplu
them that few miles to the right
of the trail were The wells of Atty
Kuduk.
General Kaufman handed him
canteen and offered him 100 rubles
If he would fill it with water. Before
night the nomad returned with dozen
dripping canteens suspended from his
shoulder, and the column was turned
toward the wells, which were found to
be few, but filled with water. The ex-
petition was thus saved, and, after
recovering from its fatigue. pushed
on to the capture of Khiya. which
was accomplished without much diff
Guilty. and on June u. 1872. Te Deum
for the repose of the soul of Peter the
Great was sung in one Of the mosques
by the soldiers.
Khiva at last was in the hands OF
the Russians, but at a frightful cost
The khan fled, but afterward came
to the Russian camp and gave himself
up. General Kaufman restored him