While halting a few minutes at lower Topechee we fell in with an uzbeg warrior, a most formidable looking personage, armed, in addition to the usual weapons of his country, with a huge bell-mouthed blunderbuss at least three inches in diameter; the individual himself was peaceably enough disposed, and, contrary to the usual habit of Asiatics, made no objections to our examining the small cannon he carried.
"A Peep into Toorkisthhan"
Rollo Burslem
I am not sure, with all due respect for the good old custom of shaking hands, that I should not have preferred submitting to the uzbeg mode of salutation.
"A Peep into Toorkisthhan"
Rollo Burslem
"If," answered Sturt, "we shall meet with the same reception from them as we have hitherto enjoyed from all other chiefs whose possessions we have had occasion to trespass upon during our journeyings, we cannot complain of want of either kindness or hospitality; for as travellers we come, and once eating the 'salt of an uzbeg,' we know that none would dishonour himself by acting the traitor."
"A Peep into Toorkisthhan"
Rollo Burslem