'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.' [‎218] (261/516)

MESSAGE TO THE PERSIAN CAMP.
white tents of which, by the help of the moon, we distinguished from
a considerable distance. A dead stillness reigned throughout the
camp ; and such was the want of precaution, that we were in the centre
of " a thousand pavilions white as snow," without having been chal
lenged by a single person. By chance I discovered the tent of Mr.
Campbell, the Prince's Surgeon, where I reposed till the morning,
when at an early hour the latter was awoken by a summons from the
Prince to attend him in the chase.
We heard cries and loud shouts, trampling of horses, people running
about in haste, and all the camp in motion. On looking through a
slit in the tent, the first person I perceived was the Prince himself on
horseback, who had issued forth without having given sufficient notice
to his attendants, who yet half-awake were hastening to join him in all
speed. The Prince returned from his excursion at about noon. He
had been on the hills which surrounded his camp, in the hope of meeting
a tiger, which had been seen a short time before by shepherds. This
animal is known to exist in this part of Persia, for Mr. Campbell pos
sesses the skin of a royal tiger that was killed here not long ago; but
instances of its being seen are very rare. In addition to his usual
hunting equipages, the Prince had taken with him a battalion of his
trained infantry, who were to surround the spot where it was likely the
animal was lurking, and to rouse him by the beating of drums. All
their efforts, however, proved unsuccessful: the Prince and his attend
ants consoled themselves by firing with balls across a valley, at a stone
for a mark, which produced a continual discharge of musquetry, of the
noise of which the Persians are extremely fond. Mr. Campbell who
had witnessed the scene, said that it was truly extraordinary to see the
dangerous places to which the Prince and his followers urged their
hoises. Indeed they hold it as a fact, that a horse will find footing
wherever a man can do the same, consequently an ascent however steep,
or a soil however difficult, scarcely ever stops them. On this occasion,
they rambled about on the tops of the mountains, until an immense
precipice completely impeded their progress. The Prince however sent
one of his men to see if it were possible to pass it, who urging his