At the age of twenty-two he became tutor in a Turkish family in Constantinople, and later he travelled through Asia Minor, Armenia, Persia, Turkestan, Bokhara, samarkand and the regions of the Oxus.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
Tibet by any chance-or is it samarkand this time?"
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
Then, troubles having arisen in samarkand, he made a dash at that city, then the most important in Central Asia.
"Rulers of India: Akbar"
George Bruce Malleson