'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.' [‎290] (321/582)

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head, after the Persian fashion. The Englishman being ignorant
however, of this custom of the country, took this familiarity for an
intended violation of his person, and became more angry than be
fore. It was therefore represented to the Prince, who was then the
Governor of Shiraz, that these young Persian courtiers had a second
time come in a body to insult the English guests. The Prince
without farther enquiry, and upon this mere representation, gave
up the offenders, though all of them were young men high in his
service, to be punished with death, or such other tortures as the
English gentlemen might at their discretion command. They were
even brought into the public place of execution, in pursuance of
this sentence,—were there stripped, tied up, and rods prepared for
flogging them; when, at the moment of the punishment being about
to commence, they were released by order of the naval captain and
his young friend, who expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with
this measure of justice, without proceeding further. The Persians
however, knowing that the whole affair originated in a misconcep
tion, from ignorance of their manners, were very indignant at the
punishment having proceeded so far.
O ct. 26th.—Being attended by a servant of Jaffier Ali as a
guide, we went out to-day to see some of the principal places in
the town, and paid our first visit to the Musj id-No, an old
mosque, now so much ruined, as to be scarcely more than a spa
cious square-court, with fountains, benches for praying on, &c.
We next went to the Musjid Jumah, the most ancient perfect
mosque in the city, being upwards of eight hundred years old. #
There was, however, a square building in the court before it, fast
going to rums: the columns had diamond-cut pedestals in the
Indian fashion, fluted shafts, and Arabic capitals ; the whole of
these- were of marble, and of better proportions than usual,
approaching nearly to the Doric in the relation between the dia-
r o u 2r:r r ; t Atta Sa *, d iS ,0 thiS day held in -P-' * Shiraz. He sur-
a wa l ' ^ ^ Musjid Jumah, or chief mosque, which still
remains, —Hint, of Persia, vol. i. p. 388.