Book, Chapter
1 I, I | Zemlianai-Gorod—European, Tartar, and Chinese quarters of
2 I, II | Ogareff has a hand in this Tartar rebellion?”~“Indeed I do;
3 I, II | chiefs willing to pour their Tartar hordes into Siberia, and
4 I, II | would never unite with a Tartar, to weaken, were it only
5 I, II | success in regard to the Tartar rebellion, circumstances
6 I, II | Russian troops could reach the Tartar hordes.~Omsk is the center
7 I, II | an enterprise so dear to Tartar instincts—aided by the chiefs
8 I, II | Kolyvan and Tomsk been cut by Tartar scouts, or had the Emir
9 I, IV | for during the winter the Tartar invaders would have been
10 I, IV | Kirghiz hordes, and of the Tartar invasion had transpired
11 I, IV | affairs, and more of the Tartar invasion and its annoying
12 I, IV | feared that before long the Tartar columns will have isolated
13 I, IV | could learn nothing of the Tartar invasion, he wrote in his
14 I, IV | might have rejoined the Tartar army. But at every station
15 I, V | The steppes are full of Tartar bands!”~Michael Strogoff
16 I, VI | formidable lieutenant to the Tartar chief.~“All foreigners of
17 I, VI | or less implicated in the Tartar movement would have been
18 I, VII | question and answer made in the Tartar idiom: “It is said that
19 I, VIII| steppes of Siberia?”~“The Tartar invasion was not known when
20 I, IX | Well then, Nadia, if the Tartar invasion has only left the
21 I, X | the Urals, which is the Tartar, or the Poyas, which is
22 I, XI | any certainty, where this Tartar invasion is?”~“Indeed, sir,”
23 I, XI | not be slow in joining the Tartar chief in the revolted country.”~“
24 I, XII | Siberians, menaced by the Tartar invasion, having collected
25 I, XII | Things were now altered; Tartar spies swarmed in the Siberian
26 I, XII | indicated the approach of the Tartar hordes. The inhabitants,
27 I, XII | confirmed the report that the Tartar chief was soon to be joined
28 I, XII | hope of cutting off the Tartar columns.~At midnight the
29 I, XII | itself was menaced by the Tartar vanguard; and two days before
30 I, XIII| them alarming news of the Tartar invasion. Some of Feofar-Khan’
31 I, XIII| between the Siberian and Tartar troops on the frontier of
32 I, XIII| Such was the system of Tartar warfare.~The people all
33 I, XIII| would get the start of the Tartar scouts, who were coming
34 I, XIII| showing the approach of the Tartar advance-guard.~As soon as
35 I, XIII| I have, indeed!”~The Tartar boats were now only a hundred
36 I, XIII| Michael recognized the Tartar war-cry, which is usually
37 I, XIV | the promised succor. The Tartar troops, who were descending
38 I, XIV | as any of the most savage Tartar chieftains, was an educated
39 I, XIV | where the main body of the Tartar army was concentrated.~Tomsk,
40 I, XIV | confidence, and to deliver into Tartar hands the town and the Grand
41 I, XIV | attack upon the ferry by the Tartar boats, the pillage of the
42 I, XIV | little father. Where the Tartar has passed there remains
43 I, XIV | streets and squares, the Tartar soldiers swarmed like ants;
44 I, XIV | temporary halting-place for this Tartar cavalry, which preferred
45 I, XIV | ten minutes afterwards a Tartar officer appeared in the
46 I, XIV | firm step, followed the Tartar. Some moments afterwards
47 I, XV | wished to get ahead of the Tartar columns. It was evident
48 I, XV | horses nor carriages. Several Tartar detachments had passed along
49 I, XV | the moment when the first Tartar scouts were signaled ten
50 I, XV | emigration caused by the Tartar invasion had not yet depopulated
51 I, XV | the fork formed by the two Tartar columns which had bifurcated,
52 I, XVI | which was spoken in the Tartar language.~Michael’s attention
53 I, XVI | the brains of the first Tartar who should approach him.
54 I, XVII| Tomsk, now occupied by the Tartar troops. Nevertheless, he
55 I, XVII| hands of the invaders. The Tartar troops, divided into two
56 I, XVII| body is engaged with the Tartar army! Pray Heaven that I
57 I, XVII| trees when a detachment of Tartar cavalry appeared on the
58 I, XVII| the steppe covered with Tartar scouts.~He ran up to the
59 I, XVII| room who had nothing of the Tartar soldier about them. One
60 I, XVII| Engagement between Russian and Tartar troops.”~The reading was
61 I, XVII| Fiercely pursued by the Tartar cavalry.”~And as Harry Blount
62 I, XVII| house was surrounded by Tartar soldiers, and neither Michael
63 II, I | CHAPTER I A TARTAR CAMP~AT a day’s march from
64 II, I | appearance.~There stood the Tartar tents; there Feofar-Khan,
65 II, I | indicated the high rank of these Tartar chiefs. Then in the distance
66 II, I | they formed the bulk of the Tartar army, and of them the khanats
67 II, I | general denomination of the Tartar army.~Nothing could be more
68 II, I | engraved. Above floated the Tartar flag, quartered with the
69 II, I | eastern line occupied by the Tartar columns was not situated
70 II, I | presence of Ivan Ogareff in the Tartar camp. Besides the danger
71 II, I | had also been taken to the Tartar camp. Their former traveling
72 II, I | of the breaking up of the Tartar camp. They were strictly
73 II, I | made his entry into the Tartar camp.~
74 II, II | execution, familiar to the Tartar chiefs, remove them when
75 II, II | followed by his staff of Tartar officers, rode towards the
76 II, II | strange than imposing for a Tartar Sardana-palus, an undisputed
77 II, II | to you.” He spoke in the Tartar language, giving to his
78 II, II | their horses in the now Tartar waters. The Kirghiz hordes
79 II, II | It is to subdue to the Tartar dominion, with Irkutsk,
80 II, II | does your devotion to the Tartar cause suggest?” asked the
81 II, II | colonel in the midst of a Tartar camp disgusts me; and although,
82 II, II | general-in-chief of the Tartar troops?” asked Blount.~“
83 II, II | passed the most advanced Tartar posts to the east. Still
84 II, II | brought by Ivan Ogareff to the Tartar camp was an old woman, whose
85 II, II | being carried off by the Tartar scouts on the Irtych, Nadia
86 II, III | kept by the Emir in the Tartar camp. These unfortunate
87 II, III | of those who had left the Tartar camp— that is to say, among
88 II, III | have been recaptured. The Tartar horsemen swarmed— it actually
89 II, III | the inauguration of the Tartar headquarters in this important
90 II, III | with the rear-guard of the Tartar army. A house had been arranged
91 II, III | throughout the encampment. The Tartar soldiers were almost immediately
92 II, III | surrounded by a large staff of Tartar officers. His face was more
93 II, III | the knout to the death!”~A Tartar soldier bearing this terrible
94 II, III | by the sharp steel.~The Tartar drew himself up. He waited. “
95 II, III | powerful hand stopped the Tartar’s arm. Michael was there.
96 II, IV | wearing the uniform of a Tartar officer, dismounted before
97 II, IV | the triumphal entry of the Tartar troops, if it was only to
98 II, IV | what is going on in the Tartar camp. Then look while you
99 II, V | being well acquainted with Tartar customs, had taken in the
100 II, V | the Emir’s tent. Different Tartar instruments, the “doutare,”
101 II, V | Emir’s words—a tall spare Tartar— was he who carried out
102 II, V | was falling; for, with the Tartar tomans and sequins, rained
103 II, V | The instruments of the Tartar orchestra sounded forth
104 II, V | of naked swords; but this Tartar dance was rendered yet more
105 II, V | going to be blinded in the Tartar fashion, with a hot blade
106 II, VII | immediately stopped, and the whole Tartar army might at once march
107 II, VIII| There was not a sign of the Tartar vanguard. Michael Strogoff
108 II, VIII| forms the chief part of Tartar warfare. Nijni-Oudinsk had
109 II, VIII| after the attack of the Tartar horsemen, Michael Strogoff,
110 II, VIII| They could not speak the Tartar language, and their assistance
111 II, VIII| and Michael, fastened to a Tartar’s saddle, was obliged to
112 II, VIII| consequences. It was nightfall. The Tartar horsemen, having halted,
113 II, IX | steppe on foot.~The third Tartar column, on its way to Irkutsk,
114 II, IX | long the appearance of the Tartar scouts.~At each halt, Nadia
115 II, IX | according to the atrocious Tartar custom, had been left in
116 II, X | for a moment that it was a Tartar detachment, sent to beat
117 II, X | Baikal. Driven back by the Tartar scouts, they hoped to obtain
118 II, X | probably, the bulk of the Tartar forces had taken up a position
119 II, XI | fugitives. Indeed, although the Tartar outposts must have been
120 II, XI | together. Up till then, no Tartar detachment had been seen,
121 II, XI | not now be far from the Tartar posts. The women and children
122 II, XI | became the mark of the Tartar sharpshooters. Several were
123 II, XI | the left, the fires of the Tartar camp.~Michael Strogoff was
124 II, XII | arrest the progress of the Tartar columns. Since therefore
125 II, XII | and besieged.~The third Tartar column—the one which came
126 II, XII | and of small caliber. The Tartar troops as they arrived organized
127 II, XII | First, the march of the Tartar army was delayed by the
128 II, XII | daughter, Nadia Fedor.~This Tartar invasion had severely wounded
129 II, XII | burned the fires of the Tartar camp, flickering beyond
130 II, XIII| September.”~“And now all the Tartar troops are concentrated
131 II, XIII| s in the estimate of the Tartar army, with the same object
132 II, XIII| forth at the fires in the Tartar camp, he listened to the
133 II, XIII| this evening to repulse a Tartar detachment. I mingled with
134 II, XIII| learning the news of the Tartar invasion!”~The father’s
135 II, XIV | because on this side the Tartar outposts having drawn back,
136 II, XIV | distinctly seen. Numerous Tartar detachments were converging
137 II, XIV | Tartars, he acted like a Tartar, and against his own countrymen!~
138 II, XV | articles relative to the Tartar invasion, and which—a rare
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