"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٩] (٥٨٢/٤٠)

to kesrabad, or dastagherd.
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represented a cliff of stratified earth in horizontal lines, about fifty
feet in height. The river itself seemed scarcely of greater breadth
than this, and, excepting some deep water near the western shore,
we forded it easily. The water was sweet and clear, and the rate
of the stream little more than a mile per hour. From hence,
when the day more clearly broke, we obtained the first sight of
a range of low hills to the eastward of us, distant apparently from
thirty to forty miles, their general direction seeming to be from
north-west to south-east, and their outlines smooth. Ascending
the eastern shore, which was thickly covered with palms, we went
for about a quarter of an hour east, and then turning to the left,
entered some lanes between garden-walls of mud, which led us
into Bakouba, where the caravan dispersed, and we ourselves
alighted at a public khan.
S ept . 4th.—When the necessary duties of the day had been
completed, and we had fed and reposed, we strolled together
around the place. It is a large straggling village, formed of mud-
built dwellings, gardens, date-grounds, &c. all intermingled, with
a poor bazar and two small mosques. The inhabitants do not ex
ceed two thousand, all of whom are Arabs, and nearly half of these
Sheeahs or of the Persian sect. The place is under the command
of Yusef Aga, who is dependent on Assad Pasha of Bagdad; its
produce is purely agricultural, and this very scanty.
The old city of Bakouba is well known in Mohammedan
history; but this was much farther eastward. De Sacy, in his
Memoirs on the Antiquities of Persia, says: " There are two
Bakoubas,—one at the extremity of the province of Nahrvan, the
other only ten parasangs, or ten leagues, from Bagdad," # which
last he thinks to be the Aakouhe of Thevenot.f The distance
seems very accurate, as we had been full nine hours in performing
it, and, being all lightly laden, had gone somewhat more than three
miles an hour.
Page 363, 4to. Paris.
f Thevenot, vol. iii. p. 215.