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PASSING PUFFS
It is unnecessary to be cumbered with smoking materials in Khiva, for
this peripatetic tobacconist supplies one's needs
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PATRIARCH OF THE SARTS AND HIS SON
Unlike Uzbeg or Turcoman, the Sart is a stock-breeder and agriculturalist,
fond of a fixed abode. Of a round-headed Turkic stock, for the most
part Moslemised, he forms the most stable part of Khiva's otherwise
nomadic population
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