Note 596 — Chapter IV · Turkomania and the Turkomans

A Turkoman, while travelling in the desert with Wolff, said, “I smell a caravan of Uzbegs”; and in a few hours one was met with. They can hear conversation at a great distance by flinging themselves on the ground and listening intently (Wolff, Bokhara, p. 242). They can name the tribe and even the individual cavalier by his traces on the sand (Moser, p. 300).