'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.' [‎343] (374/582)

JOURNEY TO BUSHIRE. 3^3
its foot we reached a small village of huts, called Khish, with
some ruined houses: and in half an hour afterwards we alighted
at the caravansera of Koneh Takhta, where we refreshed. This
village contains only a few houses and huts, seated in the centre
of a fine and extensive plain, to the north of which were large
groves of trees and gardens.
From hence in two hours we came to another Rah Dan, which
stood on the brow of the last range of hills we had to descend,
by the steep pass called Kotel Dahlikee. When we reached the
valley below this descent, we found a fine clear stream of water,
running rapidly through a deep bed to the westward, but nearly
as salt as the sea, so that our horses, thirsty as they were, would
not touch it. This Kotel was extremely long, consisting of two or
three stages, and was most fatiguing to our animals and ourselves.
We came at length to a point, from which we could see nothing
before us but one continued plain, and the blue line of the sea
in the western horizon,—an object I had not witnessed for many
months, and one which gave me as much delight to behold again,
as was experienced by the Greeks under Xenophon, when they
first saw the Euxine in their retreat from Asia to Greece. It was
sun-set before we reached the bottom of this pass, when we turned
around to the south to enter the large village of Dahlikee, where
we found shelter in a new and good caravansera.
Nov. 8th.—We remained here only just to feed and repose our
horses, and set out again before midnight. We went southerly
along the foot of the hills, as on our right was swampy ground;
and in our way we passed some foetid pools, and were plagued with
flies and musquitoes : the night was calm and warm.
The road gradually turning off to the south-west, we came in
about five hours to the large scattered village of Barazgoon,
seated among palm-trees, and four fursucks from Dahlikee.
F rom hence we were two hours going across the plain to a
smaller village, called Seeroond; and in two hours more we
reached the station of Ahmedee, which is accounted by the