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tific tariff have altered all that. To-day there is no 

 room for European merchants other than Russian in 

 those countries which lie immediately north of the 

 Pamirs or the Hindu Kush, where '* Russian prints, 

 calicoes, and cottons are successfully competing with 

 the far more beautiful native materials, and hideous 

 brocades from Moscow debauch the instinctive good 

 taste of the East ! " ' 



^ Eussia in Central Asia. Lord Curzon. 



