'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.' [‎150] (191/516)

150 ARMENIAN TOMBS.
aside, even in bed. Their dress consists of a silk shift, a pair oi silk
trowsers which reach to the ancles, a close garment which fastens at the
throat with silver clasps, and an outer garment, geneiall} made of
padded chintz, and open all the way in front. They wear a silver
girdle, which rests on the hips, and is generally curiously wrought.
Their feet are naked, and some of them wear silver rings round their
ankles. No hair is seen, excepting a long plaited tail, that hangs
over the back to the ground. On their heads they place a species of
cushion, which expands at the top. The priest s wife abo\ e mentioned,
as being the most favoured, was clad in crimson silk: the others wore
cotton printed stuffs.
On the 31st of August we buried the Ambassador 's coachman, a
young man scarcely one-and-twenty, who fell a victim to an obstinate
fever, notwithstanding all our efforts to save him. He was interred in
the Armenian burying-ground, that is situated on the skirts of Julfa;
and which by its extent confirms the accounts that we read in former
travellers of the greatness of the Armenian population, during the
flourishing days of the Seffi dynasty. The tombs are generally com
posed of one oblong block of black stone, with an inscription, oftentimes
with an emblematical designation of the trade or profession of the de
ceased, sculptured upon them. Thus, if a carpenter, a saw and ham
mer are designed; if a tailor, his shears and measure; and if a
learned man, a book and reading-board. At the extremity of this bu
rial-ground, near the mountains, are still to be seen the tombs of the
Dutch, English, French, and Russians, who died here during the
time that European nations had factories and merchants settled in
Persia. Among others, we remarked the tomb of a certain Rodolphe,
a German watchmaker, whom the Armenians look upon as a martyr,
because he would not forsake his religion (which was the Protestant) to
turn Mahomedan. Chardin, who relates this story, says that he was
put to death by Sefi the First, for having killed a Persian, although in
self-defence; and if he had turned Mussulman (which that King for a
long time pressed him to do) his life would have been spared. On his
tomb is this simple epitaph —" Ci git Rodolphe,'"