"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. [‎٥‎١‎٤] (٥٨٢/٥٤٥)

ARABS OF MUSCAT.-AN ABYSSINIAN SLAVE.
slender. Their physiognomy is not so marked as that of most
of the Desert Arabs, from their race being more mixed with
foreigners brought among them by trade. The complexions of
those of pure Arab descent are much fairer here than in any part
of Arabia that I have visited, from the southern borders of Pales
tine to the Indian Ocean; though, excepting the plains of Baby
lonia, Muscat is the hottest place I have ever experienced, in any
part of the world. From the preference which seems to be given
here to handsome Abyssinian women over all others, there are
scarcely any persons able to afford this luxury, who are without
an Abyssinian beauty, as a wife, a mistress, or a slave. This has
given a cast of Abyssinian feature, and a tinge of Abyssinian com
plexion, to a large portion of the inhabitants of Muscat: besides
which, there are many tall and handsome young male slaves, who
are assigned the most honourable places, as rulers of their master's
household, though still slaves ; and others again, who by the death
of their masters, or other causes, have obtained their freedom, and
enriched themselves so as to become the principal merchants of
the place.
A distinguished person of this last description had recently
arrived here with all his family and suite, from Bombay. This man
was a native of Gondar, tall, handsome, and of regular features, ap
proaching to the European form; but his complexion was a jet black,
and his hair short and woolly, though he had nothing else in his
appearance that was African. He was originally brought from
Massowah, on the Red Sea, and sold as a slave at Muscat. Hav
ing the good fortune to serve a most excellent master, and being
himself a faithful servant, he was admitted as adopted heir to all
the property, there being no children to claim it; and, as is not
unfrequently the case in similar instances of a faithful slave serv
ing a benevolent owner, he was invested with all the property by
will before his master's death. Not long after, or when the time
required by the law had been fulfilled, he married the widow of
his benefactor, and took her and all her relatives under his pro-