| BOKHARA. | KHIVA. | KHOKAND. | Roubles. | Roubles. | Roubles. -----------+-----------+-----------+--------- | | | 1840-1850 | 2,065,697 | 470,781 | 16,851 | | | -----------+-----------+-----------+--------- 1853 | 280,514 | 133,799 | 1854 | 509,600 | 248,347 | The 1855 | 513,023 | 185,683 | dates 1856 | 501,225 | 36,050 | are 1857 | 578,483 | 66,776 | wanting. 1858 | 634,643 | 59,729 | 1859 | 495,065 | 2,274 | 1860 | 721,899 | 22,429 | 4,907 | | | -----------+-----------+-----------+--------- | | | Total... | 4,234,412 | 755,087 | 4,907 | | | -----------+-----------+-----------+--------- From this list we see, that the exports of 1840-1850 did increase more than double during the next ten years, and under favourable political circumstances would, no doubt, continue to increase. We must add the remark, that although Bokhara shows in this list throughout the largest figures, it does not by any means follow that they are the result of its own exclusive production. Much Khiva cotton has been included, as well as the cotton which the Urgends traders carry to Orenburg on the Bokhara road. The Orenburg custom-house furnishes the list, and all the cotton is entered under the head of Bokhara. In like manner much Khokand cotton is mixed up with it. The Khokand traders give themselves out for Bokhariots on the frontier, on account of the frequent hostilities between their tribe and the Russians. 2. THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. We must mention first of all the domestic animals, and among these the genus, sheep. Two species are usually distinguished: 1, the _Kazak koy_ (the Kirghis sheep); and, 2, the _Œzbeg koy_ (the Œzbeg sheep). The Kirghis sheep is preferred to the latter, for its wool as well as its meat. Throughout Central Asia we meet with the fat-tailed sheep. Of these it is said, that their masters are obliged to fasten either cylinders or wheels under their broad, thick tails, which they drag after them on the ground, in order to render walking easier to them, or rather to enable them to walk at all--a story which is by no means exaggerated, however incredible it may appear. The so-called Bakkan koy, the fatted sheep, give often from two to three batman of pure fat. The meat I found, in point of taste and flavour, superior to any in all those parts of Asia I am acquainted with. The highly celebrated Kivirdjik and Karaman sheep in Turkey cannot be compared to them; and even the south Persian sheep, of which the Persians are exceedingly proud, are inferior to them.