A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY 



FROM HERAT TO ORENBURG, ON 



THE CASPIAN, IN 1840. 



BY CAPTAIN SIR RICHMOND SHAKE3PEAR. 



[MAGA. JUNE 1842.] 







[THIS is a narrative consisting of the journal taken 

 by the author upon his route in 1840. Being a sub- 

 altern in the army of the Indus after the taking of 

 Ghuznee, he was employed upon an important diplo- 

 matic mission, the object of which was to obtain the 

 withdrawal of the Russian army, which was at that 

 period advancing upon, and within three days' march 

 of, the city of Khiva. Sir R. Shakespear, having 

 inarched from Herat to Khiva, was successful in the 

 arrangement of a treaty between the Khan of Khiva 

 and the Russian General, the prominent conditions 

 of which were, on the part of the latter, that he 

 should withdraw* the Russian army within the limits 

 of the Russian empire; on the part of the former, 

 that the Khivans should restore to the Russians all 

 the Russian prisoners who had been taken and held 



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