'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.' [‎76] (113/516)

ruins of persepolis.
day The faces of all the figures to the right of the staircase are
mutilated, which must be attributed to the bigotry of the first
Mussulmans who invaded Persia; those of the newly-discovered figures
are quite perfect, which shows that they must have been covered before
the Saracen invasion: the nicety of their preservation would lead one
to suppose that they had been so protected for many ages before that
invasion.
On comparing Le Bruyn's, Chardins, and Niehbuhr's drawings with
the sculptures, I found them in general correct in outline, but imper
fect in the details of dress, arms, &c. Although the figures are in
themselves ill-proportioned, inelegant, and deficient in anatomical
drawing, yet they are prodigiously interesting in general character, and
have not been done justice to in the works of those travellers. They
furnish the best models of what were the nations that invaded Greece
with Xerxes, and that were subdued by Alexander.
I had not proceeded two days in my excavations, when I was sur
prised to hear that the peasants refused to work any more for me. I had
paid them handsomely; and they had assured me, that until I had
given them wherewith to buy food, they had not tasted bread for many
a day; and their account was confirmed to me by an old woman, who
in begging me to give her some money stooped down, and plucking a
piece of grass from the ground, said, " See, this is what we poor crea
tures eat." My surprise ceased when 1 found that an order had been
issued by the Governor of Merdasht that no one was any more to dig for
me, upon the plea that he could not allow excavations to be made at
Persepolis, without the orders of his government. The fact was, he
wanted a present himself, and was jealous that the money I had given
to the peasants had not passed into his pocket. However, my opera
tions ceased, and I commenced making enquiries about objects of anti
quity that had not been seen or described before. I enquired of all
ranks of persons, and was not successful in learning any thing new,
except new names of Persian fabrication for different parts of the ruins.
Thus in one place was the Sherbet Khoneh, or confectionary; in ano
ther the bath: here the Ferash Khoneh, or servants' hall; there the