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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: ment so as to attack Siberia. Mad indeed he was, if he
hoped to rupture the Muscovite Empire. Acting under his
suggestion, the Emir -- which is the title taken by the khans
of Bokhara -- had poured his hordes over the Russian
frontier. He invaded the government of Semipolatinsk,
and the Cossacks, who were only in small force there, had
been obliged to retire before him. He had advanced farther
than Lake Balkhash, gaining over the Kirghiz population
on his way. Pillaging, ravaging, enrolling those who sub-
mitted, taking prisoners those who resisted, he marched
from one town to another, followed by those impedimenta
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