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Book Synopsis Travel, Adventure, and Sport From Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) by :
Download or read book Travel, Adventure, and Sport From Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travel, Adventure, and Sport From Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 6 Noble river of the shut-el-arab. A march on Shuster had been determined upon, and a good under standing brought about with the chiefs of the Chab Arabs, the establishment of which, there appeared every probability, would have brought us into camp as many baggage-animals, in the shape of camels and mules, as were requisite for the advance of the army into the interior. A few weeks more would have seen Sir James Outram at Shuster, and there, awing the capital, with a victorious army at his elbow, he would have dictated his own terms; but diplomacy, which had failed so completely in all its efforts at the commencement of the Persian difficulty, again stepped in, and stayed the sword, to whose sole arbitration the matter very justly had been deferred. Whilst Sir James Outram had been planning a campaign, the carrying out of which would have brought the Prime Minister to his senses, and would have forced him to accept any terms, however advan tageous to the English, Lord Cowley and Ferukh Khan had been busy with their pens at Paris. The result of their operations was, that a victorious gen eral was stopped in mid-career, and a treaty of peace drawn out, in which the conquered power treated apparently on equal terms with the conquering. In due course of time, when one morning the camp was astir as usual, at an early hour, busy with the pre parations for a march into the interior, the despatch bearing the treaty of peace arrived. When the news. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
