Show djs VALOR A hungarian linguist and experiences in III ceni aral asia under great the story ofa rm in iu lk s ff amberY and of his famous journey to central asia has been often told before b but ut now for tho the first time complete ly y and iu in english by the great traveler and linguist himself vambery wag was born in 1832 and his early life yas casono one of extreme poverty ho was ld ame me from early childhood although in other res pacts endowed with health and a good 0 od c fil ti on the lif ellof p t to wK clibe r S in his childhood was if not exactly a blessing in disguise valuable as n preparation q for the adventurous life ill lie was vas to lead in his early nian manhood bood and he often speaks of ot il it enabled him to I 1 ward endure the suffering and lations of his travels his remarkable memory showed itself at a ft ve very fy aa early ae e as welt well as the strohe bent of his mind he lie began to do something 0 toward his own support by becoming apprenticed to a dressmaker but ho lie soon left this uncongenial occupation and entered u upon P the h of a p private tutor to the of the village ink innkeeper ceper wils no Ai holit its U pleasant aca t features for it included blocking the booti of tho the famil family y and nd the performance of oth other ernic me mal offic offices ishiro the pupil who was yas both older and bigger big ger than his i W was ts in the of replying to a reprimand by thrashing the teacher who had ventured to best bestow w it 11 he soon on left this position aud and by strenuous efforts succeeded hf jlii fon first arst at stgeorge Georgc St and later at Press burd 1 his vacations ious he spent like a genuine tramp and penniless thus contrived to visit prague vienna and other austrian cities a s a a at nl e 1 ik 1 0 f 16 se 11 had d h mastered 14 f besides his native hungarian the french perman ga man slavonic latino latin Cieck feek languages acquaintance with half a dozen well chosen idioms make further acquisitions of thesa mc childs play y and nd the young sch cleolar olar went on saith the different slavonic dia alecs s and with the scandinavian languages his ambition had al ready set itself upon a visit to the easque ae e began his study of Orill oriental tal ton tongues 1 gua with the turkish which he lie al also soby by dint lint of much pera seveiano severance learned ta to read and speaks speak hc atlant ia ready to set out upon his bis journey annd and a at L th the e a ago k 6 i of t 22 aft i having i diug 1 received Is some i t M e slight tid from the great hungarian E he cm embarked biked upon that was to take him hini to cons iab L foeks were passed in the turkish turkia 1 capital P during which f eli he supported 1 himself insela living by iving instructions in european lau languages u bages with all of which of any importance lie was now familiar familian and ad atcho 1 same e lime e studies of oriental tongues and busied himself anthe acquisition of or knowl knowledge pertaining to asiatic life and to t ahe lie countries which he lie hoped io to visit for his plan was firmly fixed upon upon and he be only await awaited edtha tho occasion casion to put it into operation od f at last the f in the spring of 1862 and of 30 he lie set out upon the ncy iley of his life jaia life jn constantinople had made of him im so far as ai externals were conce rheda borough thorough epure 66 focient id his is lan guage soi the 1 aun coun he be intended to visit that to cl each 1 teli of them in i n turn as he had occasion to use it lie seemed to have been born and alid accustomed all hi bi life and lie owr iio jes familiar orl oriental i e antal modes s of r expression and land ii manners lanners than he bb was waa with the I 1 languages an it na es them sely i although at hearths heart hS remained ml ba it aa eu throughout his ilia ilig route took him first to treb izone 1 I and Eizer qui 1 I and thence across the tile T u akish ali ir frontier 0 bitler upon persian soil he now traveled as i a turk with tho the title of rashid effendy which had been furnished ZV bamby ami fr friends m le and chich vas confirmed by ill tho 0 lei add 1 passports hun by the turkish authorities it must be borne in ih I 1 il eliw ali e mohammedan world is divided into the tile two great sects of the ghialis or shiites and or sunnite th tb ground of dispute being a question of tho legitimacy of a it succession to the caliphate over 1000 years yeam ago now while the turks and arab are the persians nr ar eShi itea ites and each sect d despises api ses the other not indeed with the intolerance which both of them show allow toward Europe europeans but still sufficiently I 1 to make it very unpleasant foin for a sunnite thrown among shiites shi ites or the reverse ei al VW it ery ansas character c of a turkish traveler was wa of course ta kitow a sunnite Sun nito and created treated ac ae cordingly fl ly just before reach mg behe e anca afi tbt bergian passion which enacts the life ana anad death e ol 01 iti ati t j 1 hussein t the son of albond which th the e per persians never wear weary y 0 of f seeing and wh asa raga outcome they still till m mourn oil rn as i it t the mccu occurrence aren ce had been of ry yesterday and since sih cc bambery gives an account of tins pi performance forman e W winch b ach it Is is in cerep agid ta read and contrast with the account given by mr matthew arnold an and made na eup up of bourse course irim books and not from tiou abolia a week was passed in teheran heran whery he joined a email caravan aban for the purpose of going southward aind ind paying a visit to td shiraz isfahan Is and d the ruins of perse pol poli is were vis visited iteI on tho the way and at shiraz a long stay st aywas was made in the be beginning inning of the next year 1863 57 vambery it robery found jound himself 1 f a again g a I 1 it in teheran ke h e ra bifid aria ay to undertake the really difficult part of his adventure after two months of prepra preparation i ion field arid despite ti p ite the earnest of his friends at av teheran ho lie set out upon his perilous journe journey having joiner himself to armati a small caravan caravan of pil fare returning home ward wara to turkestan Turk estan st n and whoso friendship ho made by obtaining alie much desired assistance of the turkish E embassy it company bf these pilgrims himself assuming the part of a pilgrim whose chief desire wag was to visit the h holy cly places of turkestan Turk estan amb ri penetrated central tely iq j khia ilok and samarcand Sam arcand khiva which was reached after enduring terrible hardships in the tile desert was made a stopping place for aej cetire tobita tAwas without trepidation that vambery knowing well the cruel and debauched bau clied character of the man who was at that time the khan of khi va sought an audience with that pote pot natel enAt discovery disco v e ry i of course have meant certain death ruthd through successfully e fully and anil the ifie cry true character t of the sunnite dervish wag was pecked the tile journey from khiva to brough with it again the i it i ity ferin 0 gs from heat and thirst for it was now midsummer but thia difficulty was also overcome and was safely reached here again was great dan danger r of detection but luckily the emir was absent from the city citi and although his chief officer entertained fa litel strong s suspicions asp inions I 1 of the true character of the tray traveler eler he be found it impossible to ground them and Van vambery ibery after a short stay was waa enabled to depart in peace afew days later and the extreme eastern point of the journey ivas was mado made and climbing up an entrance we saw samarcand Sam arcand tho the city of timur before beare us in all its pomp and splendor shining out with fairylike fairy like enchantment chant ment with lis its many colored cupolas and towe towers illumined by ibe he r rosy osy line hue of the rising sun after afew days spent in ui samar chrid rouil an aUdie hei the riz I 1 hi di d i plunged vania ery into lire suspense d i winch had bad been his at khiva 1 like circumstances cum stances but whose aque issue was MRS without disa became necessary to make inake plans ari for wi tho homeward journey although samarcand Sam arcand had been alie go goal alof of the ams am of tho the adventurous traveler his imagination could not help being fired by the plan suggested to him by one of his traveling companions pan ions whose destination was still fl farther art lons ier to the east to the effect that they should travel still together gether lo as far as possible and that after leaving biall him vambery should push his way to PC pe aib king there was a struggle going on within me nie for awhile to traveled by land to tope pe king through the ancient fastnesses fast nesses of the tartars Tar tars mongols Mon gols and chinese Clif inese where even marco polo would not have dared to place his feet would have been indeed a feat without a parallel but the colin counsels sels of moderation prevailed and t he lie reluctantly turned his thoughts from the dazzling pros apts b held eld oa out by such a plan and adopted ithe alie more prudent one of returning turn g to teheran by way of herat of his parting from his traveling companions vambery y writes wi with much feel feeling ing all and as lo follows flows for six months we had bad been sharing in all the dancers con he eted with traveling in the desert we had iu in common defied robbers bome the raging el elements em cuts and braved hunger and thirst no won ber then that the barriers of position age and nationality were all had bad come to look upon ourselves as one family I 1 with what heavy havy hearts henits wo we looked c forward to the sad imon rent when we should have to se separate parale 11 but the parting arting had to take place and vambery ab ry at length set out for herat making his special campan ion ion a you young Tartar who was on his way to mecca alecca the afghan experiences per perien bences ces of the travelers were nol not pleasant and the young prince of whom Van vambery ibery had an audience startled him and all around by exclaiming suddenly 1 I swear by god thou art an englishman the suspicions of the prince which were yr alter atter all only those of overconfident boyhood were easily averted and the rest of the audia ence passed off smoothly enough eno the cretu return rn journey fi from fim m afghan afghani islan to teheran was performed in the winter of in company compan with the young tartar who h had Z joined him at samarcand Sam arcand at Wes meshed liddy vambery met an old eng ffriend who waa was of much aan as sis Ls tanco fince to fo him but tho the journey was altogether a hard bard one and the travelers tra v defers were greatly relieved td find themselves once more in the neighborhood of the persian capi kal t the occasion occasion upon which bery for the farat time threw off his incognito is unexciting an exciting episode in this interesting narrative accod b by his tartar companion he danied ad near nearly I 1 reach leachel leached etl teheran when he found himself one bitterly cold winter night in a comfortable room at a village inn inu at about mid nightie nigh the was aroused by a soon thereafter there was knocking ku ac ki in at his door and he wag wal summoned su minnel to get out of his room and out of tho the house furche for the accommodation of a 4 persian princess who w with 1 ith her suite had just arrived this w wag 84 very appropriate treatment for a mendicant dervish such sucha 03 bery was taken to be but the euro in him resented it and ho he jiin thought gh t himself safe in d declaring ecla ri ng h his 3 true tru e personality speak S ak man mail it seems though art no hadji was now heard from without who talks about hadjis I 1 cried away with that abusive word I 1 am neither Bokhar nor persian I 1 havethe have the honor to be a european and my in y name is vambery sahib A fe few w 81 days 8 later and teheran w was as readied 7 to be in teheran was to be in the midst of tion again again and within reach of cons con sid erable european society it was a grateful enough experience to vambery to find himself once more with friends and fellow europeans and he lingered here for some time much ado was anade over his conlo won darful exploits in themay of travel and he left persia armed with le letter to many of the most influential of eu statesmen the tar had been his companion for so lone and he had hail bei be i come greatly attached found when the tile hour for parting came that ho he could not bearbo aarto leayo the fellow trav traveler eldr and briend whom he had lear learn to love and besought him with 1166 tears that he also asb might f go oto to europe making use of such words as these en endi forgive me you I 1 am ready io 0 o re renounce all the delights of this and of the future world I 1 am ant ready to toy renounce enounce all the di delights lights of this and of the fu ture world I 1 am ready to part even with my ray home but I 1 cannot separate aie from froin y abu he ile thus continued his entre entreaties es until bambe vambery ry gave his consent and the writer records with satisfaction that the young theological student of central asia is at present employed at the library of the H hungarian U fi garian abade academy my of of sciences the traveler upon reaching E europe proceeded did at once boeng land and france where quickly he ho became t the lion n ol 01 the hour soon after affe his return to 16 his own country he hi 0 became a processor professor at the university vcr sity of buda besth where ho he has spent the greater part of his subsequent life and devoted himself to the preparation and publication of f his many works on his travels and upon ethnographical and philo logical subjects he lie has also be been en a frequent writer for the european press prem upon the questions of eastern politics his political writings show nim him to bo be in strong sympathy with the work of england in the east and antagonistic to that of russia hia his words upon this subject are weighty and ana the passage in which he sums up his view views is worthy of citation after stating the circumstances under which he be has formed his opinion of the eng lish people ho he goes on i in this manner this opinion of mine has taught tau lit me that there is a good deal to blame lame in in the individuality as as well as gs the national character of the englishman but in spileos spi leof teof his iiii defect ai ho lie must still be loodea dupon upon as the abe only perfect representative of all t those hose qualities which have made our vc western astern culture victorious over thelast the East eliberal Th institution ilis lii unions in which the englishman is is brought 6 up have made him forward and openhearted open hearted the damp and foggy air in which he lives haa has made him stern and ref reflective lectie and the continually increasing ing lq for existence has s strained in e d his is nerves to an no unexampled activity aind it ud io to that persever perseverance aduce called british clamminess 1 1 I 1 ile he is therefore thea th rial of the european spirit tho ahe rightful of asia b |