'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.' [‎305] (358/516)

THE PILLARS Of SCULLS. sod
fused to receive, with appropriate strictures on his uncourteous con
duct.
Attempts have been made to fortify Khoi according to rule, upon
a plan drawn out bj one of General Gardanne's officers. It has cost
the Prince large sums of money, more from the instability of the work
manship and materials employed upon it, than from any other cause.
He now has determined to complete the fortifications, and we found
some hundreds of workmen employed under the direction of a young
Persian, by name Mirza Banker, who acquired a superficial knowledge
of engineering, from both the French and English officers.
We rode in the evening to see two Kelleh Minar (pillars of sculls),
which are the memorials of an extraordinary hunt of Shah Ismael, who
in one day is said to have killed a multitude of wild goats, the heads and
horns of which were arranged in thick lines around two pillars of brick.
Some less credulous, affirm that these heads were the produce of the
sport of one year, which I think most likely; although it is allowed
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