!['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.' [‎514] (545/582)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023554058.0x000001/567.g.5._0547.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎514] (545/582)")
'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.' [514] (545/582)
The record is made up of 1 volume (545 pages). It was created in 1829. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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ARABS OF MUSCAT.-AN ABYSSINIAN SLAVE.
slender. Their physiognomy is not so marked as that of most
of the Desert Arabs, from their race being more mixed with
foreigners brought among them by trade. The complexions of
those of pure Arab descent are much fairer here than in any part
of Arabia that I have visited, from the southern borders of Pales
tine to the Indian Ocean; though, excepting the plains of Baby
lonia, Muscat is the hottest place I have ever experienced, in any
part of the world. From the preference which seems to be given
here to handsome Abyssinian women over all others, there are
scarcely any persons able to afford this luxury, who are without
an Abyssinian beauty, as a wife, a mistress, or a slave. This has
given a cast of Abyssinian feature, and a tinge of Abyssinian com
plexion, to a large portion of the inhabitants of Muscat: besides
which, there are many tall and handsome young male slaves, who
are assigned the most honourable places, as rulers of their master's
household, though still slaves ; and others again, who by the death
of their masters, or other causes, have obtained their freedom, and
enriched themselves so as to become the principal merchants of
the place.
A distinguished person of this last description had recently
arrived here with all his family and suite, from Bombay. This man
was a native of Gondar, tall, handsome, and of regular features, ap
proaching to the European form; but his complexion was a jet black,
and his hair short and woolly, though he had nothing else in his
appearance that was African. He was originally brought from
Massowah, on the Red Sea, and sold as a slave at Muscat. Hav
ing the good fortune to serve a most excellent master, and being
himself a faithful servant, he was admitted as adopted heir to all
the property, there being no children to claim it; and, as is not
unfrequently the case in similar instances of a faithful slave serv
ing a benevolent owner, he was invested with all the property by
will before his master's death. Not long after, or when the time
required by the law had been fulfilled, he married the widow of
his benefactor, and took her and all her relatives under his pro-
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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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.
The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."
Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.
Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
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- 1 volume (545 pages)
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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).
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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.
Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).
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- '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.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- Buckingham, James Silk
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