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Feofar-Khan, including his own soldiers, and those of the Khanats of Khokhand and Koun-douze, had now under his command two hundred and fifty thousand men, to which the Russian government could not as yet oppose a sufficient force. The invasion could not, therefore, be immediately stopped, and the whole Tartar army might at once march upon Irkutsk.
"Do you know of any other?" asked Blount, looking at his companion. "Certainly. We are not belligerents; we are neutral, and we will claim our freedom." "From that brute of a Feofar-Khan?" "No; he would not understand," answered Jolivet; "but from his lieutenant, Ivan Ogareff." "He is a villain." "No doubt; but the villain is a Russian.
The most eastern line occupied by the Tartar columns was not situated beyond the eighty-fifth meridian, which passes through Tomsk. This meridian once passed, Michael considered that he should be beyond the hostile zones, that he could traverse Genisci without danger, and gain Krasnoiarsk before Feofar-Khan had invaded the province.
There he would be within eighty miles of Tomsk. He would then be guided by circumstances, and very probably he would decide to go around Tomsk, which, if the news were true, was occupied by Feofar-Khan.
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