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Muscovite and all his works. To Russian Central Asia he would go at all hazards, and after making such preparations as he thought necessary for a long and steady ride over the Russian steppes in midwinter, he started for St. Petersburg, and was soon on the way to Khiva in the midst of the severest weather ever felt. It was this ride to Khiva which made Burnaby's name known far and wide; and it so aroused the suspicion and tyranny of the Russian government that the officials whom he met, having made their report, a telegram was sent to the war office or the Horse Guards in London demanding the recal of the traveller who was away without leave. Burnaby, as we all know, reached Khiva, and would have pushed on to Bokhara and Samarcand, the very heart of Central Asia, but the telegram of recal reached him from the Duke of Cambridge, ordering his immediate return to England.

Nothing could keep him at home, and in 1876 he and his man Radford were off for a journey on horseback through Asia Minor: a ride through Asiatic Turkey to Persia and back to Constantinople along the southern shore of the Black Sea. It must have been a strange sight to those who beheld this pair of giants riding onward and onward for no other object, so far as Avas known, than the search for adventure and the exploration of a territory little known, but full of interest, as it touched on the Russian frontier; and including people of many nationalities from Kurds and barbarous Turcomans to Persians, Greeks, and Armenians. This journey was far less difficult than the previous one, as few obstacles were met with, the Turks rather encouraging and expediting than preventing the travellers, whom they regarded as friendly Englishmen, at a time when war between their country and Russia was already imminent.

When that war broke out in 1877 Burnaby was eager to be in the thick of it, and if possible to strike a blow against Russia. For a captain of an English regiment of guards to take his sword into a quarrel in which England had no part would have been monstrous, so he sought some other means of being on the spot, and persuaded some of his numerous friends who had organized the Stafford House Committee for sending medical and surgical aid to