'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.' [‎297] (328/582)

THE GARDENS AND GRAVES OF THE DERVISHES.
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was given to the naval captain and the young Indian civilian by
the Shah Zade, and it was here that the quarrel and misunder
standing already described arose.
The tomb of Hafiz is within a few yards of this, to the south,
and nearer the town ; but we left this for our route of return.
From the Bagh-e-Vakeel we went to the Chehel-ten, a garden
in which forty Dervishes are buried ; and their plain graves, with
out a stone or an inscription, are shown there, arranged along the
south-eastern wall, in a double row of twenty each. In another
corner is a very old tomb of Khaloo Sheikh Saadi, or the brother
of the poet Saadi's mother, who must have been buried nearly six
hundred years; and it was for his sake, he being a Dervish, that
this place is said to have been built. The small tomb erected over
him is nearly in the form and size of an ordinary coffin, and is very
old; the inscriptions are in Arabic; but from their age, and the
confused manner in which they are written, the words being run
into and interlaced with each other, they are very difficult to be
read. There are apartments here for Dervishes, of whom we
found several enjoying their shelter: they plucked us flowers
from around the tomb of the saint, and furnished us with a nar-
geel, while a metaphysical conversation was supported with great
warmth between them and my Dervish, Ismael, whose superior
learning and eloquence they all acknowledged.
Close by this, a little to the north-east, is a similar establish
ment, called the Haft-ten, or eight bodies, to which we next went.
The garden of this is finer than the former, and has fountains of
water and large cypresses. On the left, and facing a second gar
den, is a small but fine edifice, of ancient date, apart from the
dwellings of the Dervishes, and once carefully adorned, but now
falling to decay. In the open front of the central apartment,
are two pillars, of the Arabic kind, i. e. with Arabic capitals; the
shafts plain, and without pedestals, each being in one piece of
white marble. Like the columns we had seen in the court of the
old mosque of Jumah, these were in as fair proportions as the
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