'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.' [‎351] (413/516)

HIS PUNISHMENT.
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and bound him, and immediately dispatched a messenger to the King,
requesting that an officer might be sent to take him into custody.
By this act, the threatened hostilities of the Turcomans were for the
moment suspended. They retired from Astrabad, and Mahomed
Zemaun Khan was carried before the King. When he had reached the
camp, the King ordered Mahomed Khan, Chief of his camel artillery,
to put a mock crown upon the rebel's head, hazuhends or armlets on his
arms, a sword by his side; to mount him upon an ass with his face to
wards the tail, and the tail in his hand ; then to parade him through
out the camp, and to exclaim, "This is he who wanted to be the King!"
After this was over, and the people had mocked and insulted him, he
was led before the King, who called for the Looties and ordered them to
turn him into ridicule, by making him dance and make anticks against
his will. He then ordered, that whoever chose, might spit in his face.
After this he received the bastinado on the soles of his feet, which
was administered by the chiefs of the Cajar Tribe, and some time after
he had his eyes put out.
The strong coincidence between these details and the most awfully
affecting part of our own Scripture History, is a striking illustration of
the permanence of Eastern manners.
The King returned to Teheran, without having entirely suppressed the
spirit of rebellion, which had shown itself among some of the chiefs of
Khorassan ; and as it was announced early in 1815, that the summer's
campaign would again take place in that province, preparations were
made accordingly. The governors of towns and provinces received
orders to lay up provisions for the King and his troops, and the kuruk,
or the " warning off," was made at the different pasturages where it
was supposed the army might encamp.
The heats of Teheran become insupportable by the middle of June,
and the city is then abandoned by almost the whole of its inhabitants ;
those who are attached to the King and the court (forming perhaps the
largest portion) follow the camp ; the shopkeepers and merchants go to
Shemiroun, and the different villages situated at the foot of the neigh
bouring mountains, and none remain but the very poor people, who