'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.' [‎56] (91/516)

CHAPTER IV.
1 he embassy reached Shiraz on the 7th April, and after some nego-
ciation the Vizier of the Prince came out to meet the Ambassador.
He was attended by most of the principal men of the city, and when
the two parties joined company the crowd became immense. The
Minister was on one side of the Ambassador and the Mehmandar on
the other. When all the usual routine of first compliments had been
gone through, and repeated over and over again, the Mehmandar said
to the Minister, " How well the Elchee talks Persian !"—" Well," said the
Minister; "he talks it admirably. He is superior to any Mollah. W T e
have never yet seen such an Elchee; none so accomplished, none so
clever, none so learned. Sahib Kemal (an accomplished gentleman);
Sahib Akl (a man of sense); Sahib Kalem (a good penman); Sahib Fiker
(a man of reflection)to all this there was a chorus around, of belli, belli,
belli. Then the Minister turned to another man on the other side of
him, and said, loud enough and expressly for the Ambassador to hear,
" Did you ever see any one so charming as the Elchee; so much better
than all other Elchees? Ihe Ambassador, in praising the climate of
Shiiaz, said, " It is so fine, that I should have thought mankind never
died here, had I not seen those tombstones," pointing to some that we
had just past. " Barek all ah ! wonderful! wonderful!" exclaimed the
Mehmandar; "Did you hear that?" lie roared out to the Minister; " What
a wit is the Elchee !" Then he repeated the joke to the Minister, who
again cried out, " Wonderful! wonderful!" as did all the others. In this
sort of conversation, which was broken in upon only by the handing
about and bubbling of kaleoons, we reached our encampment at the
Bagh Jehan Nemah, close to the city walls.* However impertinent
this sort of bare-faced flattery appeared to us, yet in their eyes it would
be a want of the common forms of politeness did they omit it I was
present once, when the Prime Minister gave instructions to a man who
was sent to greet a Russian officer on his arrival, and his principal