Editorial note — Chapter XXIV · THE RIVALRY OF THE RUSSIANS AND ENGLISH IN CENTRAL ASIA.

[Footnote 161: This was the name of the Russian agent sent by the court of St. Petersburg to Afghanistan in 1838, with large sums of money to be employed in intrigues against England.] [Footnote 162: Whilst I write the above, a St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (10th October 1864) sends the intelligence that the Russians have already taken Tashkend. The authenticity of the statement may perhaps be doubted, but that the Russians are in movement in that quarter is certain.]