'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎48] (79/582)

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FROM HELLOWLA,
even came from the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of the district, ordering us into his
presence; and it was said that since news of the designs of Daood
EfFendi on Bagdad had reached his ears, great vigilance and strict
enquiry was exercised on all who might arrive from thence, as
few wars happened in these quarters without the Koords taking
part with one or other of the belligerents *
We repeated the story of our having business to transact with
a certain Mohammed Aga of Zohaub, since from this we could not
retreat, as our companions had circulated the same tale; and no
less than four of that name and title came to us within the space
of an hour, but we persisted in it that neither of these was the
man.
My Dervish, who was a proficient in the art of dissimulation,
at last exclaimed, " God knows! I have a suspicion that all is not
nght. It may not be so!—God forbid, indeed, that it should.
But I firmly believe this said Mohammed Aga, to whom you lent
the hundred piastres at Bagdad, to be some scoundrel who merely
assumed the name for his wicked purpose, and, abusing your piety
an generosity, cheated you under the semblance of a Zohaubi,
without ever having been near Zohaub in his life."
,, - The pe , 0 P le of the P lace Protested that there was no other
Mohammed Aga among them whom they knew of, except the four
here assembled; and when I had acquitted these of all claim, we
were suffered to rest awhile, and our tale gained general credit,
the Carfucll" The t0 ^ Warlike diSp0Siti0n 0f
defeat of the younger Cyrus at Cunaxa ha'dT ^ t0 the,r 0Wn 00Untry after the
determined to avoid the barren desert, h JVT g their mountains ' as the y ^
Thapsaous ou the Euphrates, to Babylon ^lese Ca J " from Issus ' thro "g h
free and warlike people, enemies to the KW d S ' 0r Carduchl . described as a
experienced in hurling great stones out of 1 8 SOldierS ' es P eciaIl y skilful ai >d
nlc than ordinary Th 1 ^ ft' " ^ a ^ biSneSS
killing and miserably wounding many of^m -fo!!> 6 T ^ ^ riSinS Sr0UndS '
pierced both their shields and breast-plates so th t ' a^r0WS, ab0Ve tW0 CUbltS
is said that these sort of wcanons n0 arm0Ur C0Uld ^ their force = "
these as Samans, instead of their thins da ' Xtra ° rdma 7 bl S' that the Grecians used to cast
their thong darts—See B. 14, c. 5.