'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [‎18] (49/714)

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PERSIA
1800-1891 A.i).
Capt. Puschin, 1877
Mme. C. Serena, 1877-
78
K D. Kiacli, 1878
Dr. Ci. llailde, 1879-80
Gen. GrodekofE, 1880
G-eu. Petrusevitcli, 1880
Gen. A. H. Scliindler,
1877-91
G. Riederer, 1879-81
A. Laessoe, 18811
Col. C. B. Stewart,
1880-91
E. O'Donovan, 1880
A. Gondie-Stephen,
1881-5
M. and J. Dieulafoy,
1881-6
E. Stack, 1881
Gen. Gasteiger Khan,
1881
(Col.) H. L.Wells, 1881-
91
E. Orsolle, 1882
11. Moser, 1883
S. G. W. Benjamin.
1883-5
A. Riley, 1881
Col. M. S. Bell, 1881
Capt. R. H. Jennings,
1884-5
Fr. Houssay, 1885
A. Nikulsky, 1885
J. R. Preece, 1885
Hedin Sven, 1885
J. D. Rees, 1885
Dr. A. Rodler, 1885
Capt. A. C. Yate, 1885
G. Bonvalot, 1886
T. Stevens. 1886
H. Binder, 188G
Col. A. Le Messurier,
1887
Lieut. R. E. Galindo,
1887
Lieut. H. B. Vaughan,
1888-91
J. T. Bent, 1888
11. de Windt, 1888
M. von Proskowetz,
1888
Comte de Sabran, 1888
E. G. Browne, 1888
Ca.pt. F. R. Mautisell.
1888
H. F. B. Lynch, 1889
Dr. P. F. Traubenberg
1889
Author, 1889-90
Major H .0. Sawyer. 1890
Mrs. Bishop (Miss
Isabella Bird), 1890
A few remarks about some of the names occurring in the above
tables may not be out of place, whether as explaining their sequence
in order of time, or as facilitating a classification m order
ST 011 of merit. In the early centuries immediately succeeding
periods the Mussulman conquest, we have but few records of
Persian travel, though we may be grateful that the piety of some
pilorims belonging to various persuasions, such as Rabbi Benjamin,
the Spanish Jew; Iba Batutah, the Moor of Tangier; and the
Catholic Friak William de Rubruquis and Odoricus di Pordenone,
impelled them to perambulate much of the East. Almost simu -
taneously with these the great figure of Marco Polo passes, none
too slowly, across the stage. At the latter end of the fifteenth
century, the commercial pre-eminence of Venice is attested by the
appearance upon the scene of a number of Venetian merchants or
grandees; just as a century later the expanding mercantile
ambitions of England are represented by a similar batch of British
pioneers, opening up trade routes respectively in the North and
South. An example already set in the fifteenth century by the
Spanish envoy Don Ruy di Clavijo—who kept an invaluable
record of the mission upon which he w T as sent by Henry III. of
Castile to the Court of Timur at Samarkand—is followed in the
seventeenth century by the ambassadors who flocked to the capital
of the illustrious Shah Abbas at Isfahan from the crowned heads of
Europe. The brothers Sherley, and Sir Ihomas Herbert, who ac
companied Sir Dodmore Cotton, Ambassador from Chailes I., and
wrote by far the most amusing work that has ever been published
on Persia, represent the British point of view. Don Garcias de
Silva, deputed by Philip Til., is the official mouthpiece of Spain;
Adam Olearius keeps the record of the Embassy from the Duke of