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Excerpt from The Teeming Millions of the East: Being a Popular Account of the Inhabitants of Asia; The History of Existing and Extinct Nations, Their Ethnology, Manners, and Customs
What is the future outlook for Asia, is a more practical subject for consideration. In modern times Russia has Spread with marvellous energy over the whole north and much of the west of the continent, and has shown great colonising ability. With an energy and determination equal to that of British and American pioneers, her soldiers have traversed deserts and overcome obstacles which the proud and fierce natives of Turkestan and other lands deemed impregnable; her travellers have by their voyages and travels raised their country to a high rank in scientific exploration; her engineers have carried a railway from the Caspian to Bokhara and Samarcand, once sealed to all but Moslems. The British power has steadily extended throughout and beyond Hindustan, dominating Afghanistan and Beluchistan, and conquering Assam and Burmah. The French have begun to control and develop Tonkin, cochin-china, Annam, and Cam bodia. The spread of these nations and the decay of the Persian and Turkish powers suggest that at no distant date much of south-western Asia may fall under Euro pean in?uence, if not direct administration. Only the Arab appears to have sufficient energy, independence and resolution, aided by the nature of his domain, with its heat and frequent deserts, to successfully withstand the foreigner.
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