Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, 1892, Vol. 14 The Persian interpreter, promised by Mr. Stevens, came by the next steamer from Odessa, and joined me at Batoum. He had travelled extensively in the East with Dr. Lansdell, Mackenzie Wallace, and others, and I was especially glad to get him, as I knew we should want a Persian interpreter when we got among the Tadjik in Badak shan, and I did not feel at all sure I should find one who would trust himself to the tender mercy of the Afghans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.