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132 thousand miles of Central Asia without trepidation. The Company was disturbed when Russians were reported to be operating in Khiva, 1,500 miles from its frontier of that time: we are undisturbed when Russia's outposts are not a hundred miles from ours, and when we have drawn a line across the path of Russia from the Pamirs to Persia, the infraction of which we are bound to make a casus belli. There could not be more striking proof of the confidence of power than this. The situation is rendered the more dramatic and encouraging because that confidence is evidently shared by at least the militant Princes and races of India. Such a condition of things was impossible under the Company. It constitutes the reward of the personal efforts made by the Queen and her advisers to unify an Imperial India.