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have alighted at the station over which stands the 

 word Kagahn. Kagahn suggests Uttle enough, but 

 Bokhara suggests a great deal, and Kagahn is the 

 name given to the station at New Bokhara since the 

 Russians took courage and constructed a branch line 

 two years ago, which now deposits the traveller under 

 the very walls of Old Bokhara itself. 



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