'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.' [‎298] (329/582)

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Doric, the order to which they approached nearest, in that respect
It is here that the Patriarchs are introduced,—Abraham offering
up his son Isaac, and Moses feeding Jethro's flock. In one com
partment, an old white-bearded man is represented, below a
window, addressing a fair and gaily-dressed lady in a balcony
above. This is said to be a certain Sheikh Semaan, of whom the
story says, that he loved an Armenian lady, who forced him to
change his religion, drink wine, eat pork, and drive swine ; and
then laughed at him for his pains. In opposite compartments, at
each end of the room, the poets Saadi and Hafiz are represented
in fulUength figures, said to be portraits. Both of them wear
the Dervish's cap, surrounded by a green turban, and are white
bearded. These portraits are better executed, on the whole, than
any of the other pictures.
In front of this open apartment is a neat little garden, with
cypresses and a large spreading fir-tree. In this, the eight bodies
of the Dervishes, first buried here, have their graves in a line to
gether : their tombs are formed of plain cases of smooth marble,
without inscription or date. Many other Dervishes are buried
both here and at the Chehel-ten ; but it is said to be only those
who are distinguished from their fellows by superior piety, or su
perior understanding, who are granted that honour.
Above these abodes of Dervishes, in the mountains on the left
of Teng-e-Allah-Ackbar, and north-east of this, are other smaller
dwellings of the same people; and on the summit of the mountain
is the tomb of Baba Kooe, an old Dervish and philosopher, whose
verses and sayings in Persian were after his death collected, and
are still extant under his name. At the small building on the
right of the rocky pass of Teng-e-Allah-Ackbar is kept a copy of
the Koran, said to be the largest in being, and written by Imam
Zain-el-Abadin, the son of Imam Ali; but as the person who
had the custody of this large book lived in town, and we could
not see it without much difficulty, we did not go to the place
where it is kept.