THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by M. O. Williams 



A GEORGIAN BOY IS ONE) OE THREE DRIVERS DIRECTING 12 OXEN DRAWING A PLOW 



The same boy may be seen in the illustration on the preceding page. He rides on the yoke 



of one of his team. 



But the present outlook promises a 

 better sequel. The Armenians, who more 

 than any other people have suffered from 

 the Osmanli branch of the Turanian race, 

 are still holding out in the Erivan plain 

 and the hill city of Shusha. 



The British, whose empire might suffer 

 most from Pan-Turanian success, have 

 trekked 700 hard miles from Bagdad and 

 landed a party at Baku, the Pan-Tura- 

 nian hub. Here lives Ahmed Aghaeff, 

 Baku Tatar and chief exponent of Pan- 

 Turanianism, principal in the Pan-Tura- 

 nian conference in Constantinople four 

 years ago, and editor of the widely spread 



Turk Yiirdu, whose aim is to awaken 

 among a score of widely separated peo- 

 ples a sense of their common tie. What 

 the landing and presence of even a small 

 number of British at Baku means, only 

 one who understands the racial com- 

 plexity and opportunist psychology of 

 Transcaucasia can realize (see also page 



275). 



BOHEMIANS IN THE VOLGA VALLEY 



The brave Bohemians, the most-dis- 

 cussed people of this year, who centuries 

 ago helped repulse the Tatar hordes from 

 the gates of Vienna, now hold the heart 

 of the Volga Valley, with the capital of 



