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'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎1] (34/516)

The record is made up of 1 volume (435 pages). It was created in 1818. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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SECOND
JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA.
CHAPTER L
Among the few circumstances which can now give novelty to a voyage
to the East Indies, may be reckoned the company of a Persian Am
bassador and his suite; and, therefore, though I did not obtrude on
the public the details of my first voyage with English passengers, I
should not be justified in withholding all notice of an rxpedition under
taken with companions so different and so uncommon.
The Persian Ambassador, whom I had conducted to England by
Turkey and the Mediterranean in 1809, and who was known here by
the name of Mirza Abul Hassan, to which has since been added the
title of Khan, was now to return to his own country. It was settled
that he should accompany a British Mission to Persia, and prepara
tions were accordingly made for the reception of the two Ambas
sadors, with their respective suites, on board the Lion, 64, Captain
Heathcote, the same ship which eighteen years before had carried
Lord Macartney to China.
A Persian, who had been feasted and exhibited in London for nine
months*, and had seen all its objects of curiosity, might almost have
* See Appendix, A.
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A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.

Publication Details: London : Longman, Hurst, etc., 1818.

Physical Description: pp. xix, 435: plates; illus., maps. ; 4º.

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