'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.' [‎385] (453/516)

MR. WILLOCK'S ARRIVAL.
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GKCGllGiit viGW of thG mountain of DGmawGnd, bGaring N, 69^° W.
TIig next day wg again camG to Firouz Koh. Hgig wg karnt that
tliG King was preparing to iGturn, and that arrangGmGnts wgfg making
for his rGCGption, as it was his intGntion to dismiss his troops and
pass tGn days among tliG rocks of Sawachi, for thG purpose of hunting
tliG wild goat. A mGssGngGr passed us in great hastG for TGhGran,
chargGd, as wg wGrG told, with thG commission of bringing up the
Bazigers, or dancing-womcn, to greet his Majesty on his arrival at
Firouz Koh.
We returned to Demawend to wait the arrival of my successor
Mr. Willock, whose appointment had long been announced from Eng
land; and on the 17th September I had the satisfaction to see him.
He had completed the journey in only 60 days. We immediately re
turned to Teheran, to wait the King's return from his campaign, and to
make preparations for my leaving Persia.
Finding that the new arrangements which had been made by the
English Government in regard to the Persian mission were not very
agreeable to the Persians, I determined to do all in my power to
leave them in as good a humour as possible with us; and consequently
immediately assented to an invitation made me by Mirza Sheffea,
to meet His Majesty on the day of his entry into the capital. The
IstakbalU that was preparing was to be of the most splendid nature ; and
perhaps it was intended to cloak the little brilliancy of the late cam
paign by the excess of adulation that was made to the King upon his
return from it.
In the first place, as in ancient times, almost the whole of the male
population of the city was ordered to meet the King *, and very early
in the morning of the day of the entry, the environs on the road to
Khorassan were covered with people. We were summoned by the
Prime Minister in person, who was so anxious that we should be at our
post at the earliest moment, that he came almost unattended to us;
and having marshalled our procession, he led the way, and served us
* Quint. Curt. lib. v. c. 1.
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