'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.' [‎307] (360/516)

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both parties. The Mehmandar urged the authority of the Prince, the
Ket Khoda that of the Governor. " I have the Prince's firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). ," ex
claimed the first, " which if I were to place upon a rock, that rock would
" dissolve into water from fear: who can saj any thing against that?"
" But the Governor," exclaimed the second, " has ordained otherwise."
" Then," retorted the other, "the Governor Goh Khord* to which
he added all the common-place expressions of contempt for the whole
of the Governor s family, — his father, mother, wife, daughters, &c.,
which are always the first effusions of a Persian in his anger. The dis
cussion ceased by the Ket Khoda, as well as one of the Governor's ser
vants, receiving a volley of severe blows, which instantaneously pro
duced the guards we wanted.
The next day we went to Khanaka, distant twenty miles, within one
furlong. Our road led through a mountainous tract, some parts of
which were stony. We first went a little to the west of north, at the
foot of a mountain called Chehel Khoneh, and then gradually changed
our direction to the east of north. I find the bearings, taken from the
pointing of a peasant to be correct for general uses; and in such a pas
toral country, where the occupation of one half of the peasantry is to
lead their flocks over the country in all directions, the relative position
of places is always well known.
Khanaka means a place of religious retirement, and we were told
that the remains of the cell of the saint who gave the name to the vil
lage are to be seen. The principal place in the neighbourhood is
Chors, situated a mile and a half from our encampment In the even
ing we rode to it, attracted thither by some wonderful accounts of
antiquities. Chors was the principal seat of the Armenians, when that
people were flourishing in these parts, and from its fall arose the town
of Khoi. Churches and other Armenian establishments are still to be
seen; but so rapid has been the dispersion and degradation of this
people, that none but Mahomedans now inhabit it, and even of them
* This is a vulgar and common expression among the Persians, when they would say
that a blunder has been made. Perhaps the latter part of the 27th verse of the 18th chap
ter of the 2 Kings, may afford an explanation.
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