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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: ern Siberia which is intended to overawe the Kirghiz popu-
lation. Here are the bounds, more than once infringed by
the half-subdued nomads, and there was every reason to be-
lieve that Omsk was already in danger. The line of military
stations, that is to say, those Cossack posts which are ranged
in echelon from Omsk to Semipolatinsk, must have been
broken in several places. Now, it was to be feared that the
"Grand Sultans," who govern the Kirghiz districts would
either voluntarily accept, or involuntarily submit to, the
dominion of Tartars, Mussulmen like themselves, and that
to the hate caused by slavery was not united the hate due to
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