'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.' [‎223] (266/516)

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the want of the comforts of Stambol, and how anxious he was to get
back to them. The room in which we were seated looked upon a
small basin of water, in which was placed a little ship completely rigged,
at which the old man was wont to look, as a recollection of his dear
Bosphorus. When we conversed on politics I found him in almost
total ignorance of what was then passing in the world. He asked me
questions about events that had taken place many months before ; and
as he was generally six months at a time without hearing from his
Court, all his information was gleaned from the Tatars, who occasion
ally were sent to the English Ambassador from Constantinople.
The affairs between Turkey and Persia continued for some time after
to wear an unsettled appearance, although hostilities had ceased on the
Bagdad frontier, owing to the compromise which the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of that place
had agreed to make, by paying down a certain sum in ready money as
a compensation for the expences that Persia had incurred in her inter
ference for Abdurakhman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. .
We had not long been at Tabriz before our party was joined by the
Rev. William Canning and the Rev. Henry Martyn. The former was
attached to our Embassy as chaplain ; the latter, whom we had left at
Shiraz employed in the translation of the New Testament into the Per
sian language, having completed that object, was on his way to Con
stantinople. Both these gentlemen had suffered greatlj in health during
their journey from Shiraz. Mr. Martyn had scarcely had time to recover
his strength before he departed again. He remained some time with the
Armenian patriarch and his monks at Etchmiatzin, and his memory is
highly revered amongst them. He had a relapse of his fever in Turkey,
and as he travelled with a Tatar, a mode evidently too violent for his
weak frame, his disorder obliged him to stop at Tocat, where he died.
The Persians, who were struck with his humility, his patience and re
signation, called him a merdi kJioddi, a man of God; and indeed every
action of his life seemed to be bent towards the one object of advancing
the interest of the Christian religion. When he was living at Shiraz,
employed in his translation, he neither sought nor shunned the society
of the natives, many of whom constantly drew him into arguments