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Updated: May 21, 2025
This language is not too strong, though the recovery of the Baku oil has done something to produce a revival along the Volga basin. The failure of the whole industrial side of the national economy, including transport, is at the bottom of the other failures of the Soviet Government.
Denikin still holds the larger part of the Donetz coal district and has destroyed the mines in the portion of the district which he has evacuated. As a result of this, locomotives, electrical power plants, etc., must be fed with wood, which is enormously expensive and laborious and comparatively ineffectual. Gasoline. There is a total lack of gasoline, due to the British occupation of Baku.
The baku feeds on evil dreams alone, and this was not evil. Ah, nurse, it was so sweet a dream " "I can give no time to your honorable fooling," cried Mata, in pretended anger. "Have I the arms of a Hundred-Handed Kwannon that I can do all the household work at once?
There is not a single tree, there is no grass ... dreary as hell.... Baku and the Caspian Sea are such rotten places that I would not agree to live there for a million. There are no roofs, there are no trees either; Persian faces everywhere, fifty degrees Reaumur of heat, a smell of kerosine, the naphtha-soaked mud squelches under one's feet, the drinking water is salt.
The western coasts of the Caspian are flat and monotonous. There are two ports of call between Baku and Enzelli Lenkorán, a dismal-looking fishing-village of mud huts, backed by stunted poplars and a range of low hills; and Astará, the Russo-Persian frontier. Trade did not seem very brisk at either port. We neither landed nor took in cargo at either.
Our own ship is a light-draught steamer of five hundred tons burden. A little steam-launch puts out from Ashdurada, bringing the mails and several naval officers bound for Krasnovodsk and Baku. The scenery of the Mazanderan coast is magnificent. The bold mountains seem to slope quite down to the shore, and from summit to surf-waves they present one dark-green mass of forest.
Hence the idea of all the bodies of the Magi left at Baku being turned to stone, while only the true believer in Mohammed remained in the flesh.
"Sir," said he to me, "are two Frenchmen going all the way from Baku to Pekin without making each other's acquaintance?" "Sir," I replied, "when I meet a compatriot " "Who is a Parisian " "And consequently a Frenchman twice over," I added, "I am only too glad to shake hands with him! And so, Monsieur Caterna " "You know my name?" "As you know mine, I am sure."
The waters of the Caspian Sea along the Baku shore are usually fine for bathing, but if the wind blows inland for a while the oil floating on its surface accumulates, forming a black scum on the top, putting an end to the bathers' sport until an offshore wind sets in. Ten miles from Baku, once upon a time, there was a temple over a cleft in the rocks from which gas arises.
I received a letter from the governor a few hours before my departure, wishing me bon voyage, and enclosing a document to ensure help and civility from the officials throughout his dominions. It may seem ungrateful, but I felt that I could well have dispensed with this, especially as I was leaving his Excellency's government at Baku, a distance of only ten hours by rail.
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