 | Alexander von Humboldt - Asia, Central - 1843 - 606 pages
...to the wants of a pastoral community cannot well be imagined. The grass of Pamir, they tellyou,'is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days: and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes,which almost invariably... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 624 pages
...than forty days they die of repletion " (I. 42 1). And Wood : " The grass of Pamer, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably... | |
 | John Wood, Sir Henry Yule - Afghanistan - 1872 - 398 pages
...advantages, since they are never wearv of expatiating upon them. The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich, that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, w:hich almost invariably... | |
 | James Hutton - Asia - 1875 - 596 pages
...surface of the lake is covered with aquatic birds. ' The grass of Pumeer they (the Kirghiz) tell you is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 730 pages
...more than forty days they die of repletion" (I. 421). And Wood : "The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 862 pages
...than forty days they die of repletion" (I. 421). And Wood : " The grass of Parru'r, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in iess than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 802 pages
...advantages, since they are never weary of expatiating upon them. The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days." 4 "A fine river" (the Pamir) "running through a plain clothed with 1 About 17,000 feet, but these can... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 828 pages
...more than forty days they die of repletion." (I. 421.) And Wood : "The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and ils nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 812 pages
...more than forty days they die of repletion." (I. 421.) And Wood : "The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1921 - 1104 pages
...Lieut. J. Wood, who journeyed to the sources of the Oxus eighty years ago, was assured by the Kirghiz that "the grass of the Pamir is so rich that a sorry...brought into good condition in less than twenty days." The experience of the Pamir Boundary Commission of 1895 did not belie these older estimates, for Alcock... | |
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The grass of Pamir, they tell you, is so rich that a sorry horse is here brought into good condition in less than twenty days ; and its nourishing qualities are evidenced in the productiveness of their ewes, which almost invariably bring forth two lambs... 