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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.
The Russo-Persian failure at Herat was scarcely calculated to maintain in the astute and practical Afghans any hope of fulfilment of the promises which the western powers had thrown about so lavishly, while it made clear that, for some time at least to come, the Persians would not be found dancing again to Russian fiddling.
Lancelot ruefully recognised the truth of the chalk-line story. Comus drew the desired line with an anxious exactitude which he would have scorned to apply to a diagram of Euclid or a map of the Russo-Persian frontier. "Bend a little more forward," he said to the victim, "and much tighter. Don't trouble to look pleasant, because I can't see your face anyway.
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