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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: of Tartary. Relying on the other khans -- principally those
of Khokhand and Koondooz, cruel and rapacious warriors,
all ready to join an enterprise so dear to Tartar instincts --
aided by the chiefs who ruled all the hordes of Central Asia,
he had placed himself at the head of the rebellion of which
Ivan Ogareff was the instigator. This traitor, impelled by
insane ambition as much as by hate, had ordered the move-
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
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