'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.' [‎239] (288/516)

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right and left of which were several large pavilions, belonging to the
Vizier, Secietaries, military and civil officers; and behind all, were the
numerous small tents of the Princes household. On the left flank was
stationed the artillery, and on the right the Persian cavalry. At a
small distance, in a hollow, was situated the ordou bazar, or the camp
maiket, which, as in the days of Cyrus " v , always accompanies the
camp, and is regulated in the same manner as it was of oldf, and
where provisions were brought from all the country round. The Em
bassy encamped about half a mile in the rear of the Prince's camp.
At a short distance, near the road side, we saw the burial-place of-
a Persian saint, enclosed by very rude walls. Close to it grew a small
bush, upon the branches of which were tied a variety of rags and rem
nants of garments. The Persians conceive that these rags, from their
vicinity to the saint, acquire peculiar preservative virtues against sick
ness ; and substituting others, they take bits away, and, tying them
about their persons, use them as talismans. May not this custom
have some distant reference to that which is recorded of the Apostle
Paul ? " And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; so
" that from his body were brought unto the sick, handkerchiefs or aprons,
and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of
" them." Acts, xix. 11 and 12.
The Ambassador, attended by his suite, visited the Prince two days
after his arrival; and we were, as usual, highly delighted with the
reception he gave us, with his amiable manners, and his lively con
versation. In the rapid manner peculiar to him, he skimmed over
a variety of subjects with a humour and vivacity that would be
lost in the recital, particularly when rendered into English. He first
talked of the Uzbeg Tatars; and we had agreed with him in the
facility of conquering them, possessed as Persia now was of good artil
lery, when he exclaimed, " Ah ! it would indeed be an easy matter!
" What do they know of guns, or manoeuvres, and of firing ten times in
# Anabasis, lib. i. c. 3.
f Cyropaedia, lib. iv. c. 5.