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t means that about 15 percent of the Mennonite population died of typhoid. If the larger figure of 80 is used, then perhaps 20 percent of the Turkestan millennialists died. 17. CBB (February 15, 1882), pv. 30: Jantzen, “Memories,” p. 7; ZH (April 7, 1881), p. 2; Neff, ‘Alexander II,” ME I, p. 44; Neff, ‘Alexander II,”” ML, I, p. 21. 18. Alexander Kornilov, Modern Russian History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 247. 19. Klaassen, “Asienreise,’’ p. 23. 20. Jacob Toews, “Sketch,” p. 16. 21. Kornilov, Modern Russian History, pp. 249, 261; Mazour, Russia: Past and Pre- sent, pp. 72-73; Curzon, Russian Central Asia, pp. 23-24; Wheeler, Modern History of Russia, p. 96. 22. Toews, ‘Sketch,’ p. 16; Curzon, Russian Central Asia, pp. 21-23. Curzon on his personal excursions found hostility toward Germans in Russia. 23. Schultz, “Autobiography,” p. 23. 24. CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30; Jantzen, “A Brief Sketch,” p. 10. The year is 1881 and not 1882 as Jantzen incorrectly reports. 25. Schultz, “Autobiography,” p. 23; Jantzen, ‘‘Memories,’”’ p. 7. 26. Jantzen, ‘Memories,’ p. 7; Janzen, “Colony,” p. 83; DB (November 12, 1947), pp. 4-7; D. J. Schellenberg, “A Moses of Our Day — David Toews,’ Mennonite Life, V, No. 3 (July, 1950), pp. 69; CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30; Stumpp, HB, (1959), p. 15. 27. Bartsch, Unser Auszug, p. 44. 28. Ibid. 29. Krahn, “Abraham Peters,” p. 152; Bartsch, Unser Auszug, p. 40; “Peters,” ML, III, p. 353; Stumpp, HB (1964), p. 15; Jansen, “Colony,” p. 283. 30. Claassen, “A Study of the Mennonites in Russia,” p. 8. 31. Krahn, ‘‘Peters,” p. 152; ZH (September 21, 1881), p. 142; CBB (February 15, 1882), pp. 30-31; Stumpp, HB (1964), p. 15; GB (April, 1883), p. 28; Janzen, “Colony, p. 283; ZH (September 21, 1881), p. 142; CBB (February 15, 1882), pp. 30-31. 32. Claassen, ‘A Study of the Mennonites in Russia,’ p. 9. 33. GB (January, 1882), pp. 4-5; ZH (November 21, 1881), p. 174; ZH (December 7, 1881), p. 182. 34. CBB (June 15, 1883), pp. 93-94. 35. ZH (September 21, 1881), p. 142. Notes 213 36. GB (August, 1881), p. 61; Bartsch, Unser Auszug, p. 81; CBB (September 15, 1882), p. 143. 37. Klaassen, “Asienreise,”” pp. 24-25; BM; CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 30; CBB (March 1, 1882), p. 38; Bartsch, Unser Auszug, p. 50; Eldon Smith, History and Record, p. 72. Chapter 10 1. ZH (December 21, 1881), p. 191; DB (November 19, 1947), p. 5; CBB (February 15, 1882), p. 31. 2, Cornelius Krahn, “Bukhara,” ME, I, p. 383; Curzon, Russia in Central Asia, p. 160, points out that by the treaty of 1873 with Russia, slavery was prohibited in the khanate, but in reality de facto slavery was not abolished until November 19, 1886. 3. ZH (December 21, 1881), p. 191. 4. Klaassen, ‘Memories of a Journey,” p. 21; Jantzen, “Memories of a Journey,” pp. 8-9. 5. CBB (March 1, 1882), p. 37; BM; for an excellent historical description of this city see the recently publis