'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.' [‎252] (301/516)

252 ARBAB.
The next day's march was to Arbab, pleasantly situated in a deep
valley close to a beautiful stream, that winds between two ranges of high
rocky mountains, and takes its rise, as a peasant informed me, eight
fursungs off, on a bearing of nearly due south. We remarked the
simple construction of an aqueduct made to conduct water from one
side of the river to the other, which was done by means of wooden
troughs, sustained by stakes driven into the bed of the livei.
We then reached Konak kerran, Turkish words, that mean the slayer of
guests. In travelling from Arbab to this place we came to a very steep
ascent over a rocky and dangerous road, which forced us all to dis
mount from our horses, whilst the takhteravan or litter in which the
Ambassadress was borne, was taken off the mules and carried on the
shoulders of peasants, who had been previously sent to the spot for
the purpose. The English servant maid, who rode in the kejaweh, or
hamper, wanted also to get out and walk up the steep, but her Persian
conductor would not let her, for he drove his mule up the dangerous
path, exclaiming, " Yes, indeed, if I were to let you out, what would
" there be to balance the boxes on the other side?" The fellow in
treating our countrywoman just as he would have done his own, by
this single trait spoke the sentiments of all Persians towards the
soft sex.