The Armies of to Day a Description of the Armies of the Leading Nations At the
The Armies of to Day a Description of the Armies of the Leading Nations At the
Wesley Merritt
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There is every reason to trust to their loyalty. Nowadays you may travel unarmed with perfect safety from one end of the Turkoman oasis to the other, as I myself have done. The Turkomans are a fine race, with regular features and very dark skins. This is true, however, of the men only, for the women are generally very ugly. The Turko- man is excessively sympathetic, brave, hospitable, and honest in his way. He will rob a man whom he does not know if he finds anything lying about loose, but he n...ever breaks open a lock or a door, and if you lend him a sum of money on his mere word, you may be sure that he will pay it back, even if he lives 300 leagues off, away in the desert. 252 THE RUSSIAN ARMY His method of warfare is that of all the Asiatic peo- ples. The quality by which he is distinguished above all other irregular cavalry is the facility with which he traverses incredible distances in a short time. While the Russians were at war against the Turkomans, it often happened that the spies in the evening would announce that a Turkoman troop had been seen before dinner- time near a well ninety miles away, and before the spy had finished his story the same Turkomans would be upon us.
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