A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus.

Also republished is TE Gordon's 1876 The Roof of the World and John Wood's 1872 A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus.

A group of merchants acquired the Treasure (the precise findspot is unknown, but thought to be on the River Oxus); however, on the road from Kabul to Peshawar they were captured by bandits, who dispersed the Treasure before they were rescued by Capt. F.C. Burton, the British political officer in Afghanistan.

The latter two names refer to its position beyond the River Oxus when approached from the south, emphasizing Turkestan's long-standing relationship with Iran, the Persian Empires and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.

The armies of the Persians and the Tartars have met on a plain by the River Oxus.

Four years later, he led an expedition that found one of the River Oxus' sources in central Asia.

He quotes the Tsar as instructing Orlov: "My maps only go as far as Khiva and the River Oxus.

Darya e Amu - River Oxus, called in ancient times by the river of Gozan.

Wood, John (1872) A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus.