AFGHANISTAN. 



are peopled mainly by Tadjiks and Uzbecks, with "West of Khoja-Saleh the boundary must be an 



a sensible Afghan element on the south bank, air-line unless it follows the mountain-ranges. 



Here the river boundary corresponds more It did not occur to the Kussians, who had no 



nearly to the ethnic and political conditions, interests in that section nearer than the shore 



