"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. [‎٤‎٦] (٥٨٢/٧٧)

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FROM HELLOWLA,
The road from hence led directly to Serpool, our next stage, in
an easterly direction, and was just three hours more. The town
of Zohaub, the seat of the Koordish Pasha of Bajilan, was pointed
out to the northward of us, just discernible by a white dome amid
a cluster of trees, as it stood at the other extremity of the plain,
at a distance of at least nine miles. There were two persons of
our party destined for this, who intended leaving us here; and as
the day was yet early, and we were assured that we could reach
Serpool sufficiently in time to continue our way with the caravan
of asses on the following morning, we determined to profit by so
favourable an occasion of going up to Zohaub. In doing this, we
were careful, however, to assign a proper motive, by insisting that
we had business there with a certain Mohammed Aga, of which
name there were no doubt twenty in the place (the name being as
common as J ohn Smith or William J ones in England), and should
push on to Serpool to arrive there before night.
We accordingly quitted the direct road, and pursued our way
across the plain, on a course of north-north-east, passing several
Koord villages of straw huts, and having on each side of us fields
of rice, cotton, tobacco, melons, &c. all now verdant, and watered
by running streams flowing northerly through the plain, and lead
ing off from the Alwund, which we had left to the southward
of our road.
The Koords of the plain all live in dwellings of a description
that might be called either huts or tents, for they are composed
of the materials generally used in both, and are not altogether
stationary. Like the tents of the Turcomans, the awning or roof
is often of black hair-cloth, and the sides and partitions of straw
matting, crossed by diagonal lines of black thread. The occupa
tions of the people as pastors and cultivators, as well as their whole
domestic economy, resemble those of the half Bedouin Arabs,
on the eastern frontier of Syria. Their dresses, however, are
different. Short coats or long jackets of a thick white woollen-
cloth, with overhanging sleeves like the Albanian soldiers, narrow