'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.' [‎150] (181/582)

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was not more than twelve years old, and beautiful as an angel.
Their place of residence or retirement was pointed out to us by
them, in the hills on our left, being an isolated cottage remote
from all other dwellings. In answer to the enquiries of the Der
vish and Faqueer, they assured us, laughingly, that when we re
turned this way, they should be most happy to entertain us in the
manner which our good appearance bespoke us to deserve ; but
that for the present they had guests engaged, whom they had too
high a sense of honour to disappoint.
We now came to a second plain; in passing which, we
crossed over a long, low bridge of many arches, leading over a
marshy tract. To the north-east of this, about a mile, was a small
village, with gardens and modern walls; and beyond it, three or
four miles in the plain, a large castle, ruined and deserted. This
was called Boat Khana Jemsheed, or the Idol dwelling of Jem-
sheed :—of this we could learn no more than the name.
It was about an hour from hence, and past sunset, when we
reached Kengawar, having been nearly twelve hours on the road;
our course being about east by north, and the distance forty miles.
There was no khan, or place of public reception, here ; and the
governor had given to one of his subjects a monopoly of selling
corn for the horses of passengers, so that we became completely
at the mercy of this man. He refused, indeed, to let us enter the
town at all; obliging us to sleep below, on a marshy ground, with
some Persian robbers, who were going as pilgrims to the tombs
of the Imams ; and, disagreeable as this was, there was no remedy
for it: we therefore bore it in patient submission.
Sept. 20th. The night was so cold and stormy, and a vigilant
look-out after our horses, among an acknowledged herd of holy
thieves, was so necessary, that we obtained not a wink of sleep.
When we remounted in the morning, we went up through the
town, into which we had been prevented from entering on the
preceding evening; but as our passage through it was rapid.