'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.' [‎394] (467/516)

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ERIVAN FRONTIER.
As we crossed the plain of Erivan, we met great numbers of Gourds,
who had fled from the Turkish territory to that of Persia, and were
travelling to take possession of villages which had been assigned
to them for their habitation by the Serdar of Erivan. On the day
of my arrival at Erivan, I visited him, and he informed me of the
circumstances that had led to the migration of the Gourds. When
Baba Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , the present Serasker of Arze Roum, first took possession
of his government, the city and territory of Bayazid was in pos
session of Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , a man who was obnoxious to both the
Turkish and Persian governments ; for on his account the frontier be
tween the two countries was always in an unsettled state. Baba Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
came to a friendly understanding with the Serdar of Erivan, Ibrahim
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was deposed, and Abdullah, a man who had been recommended
by the Serdar as a fit person to be entrusted with the government of
the frontier, was appointed. Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , in the mean while, was
detained at Arze Roum, dependent upon the will of Baba Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ; but as
he was well allied in the country with rich friends, he managed, by in
trigue and bribe, to get himself once more appointed to his Pashalik.-
This of course was a step in every way disagreeable to the Persian
government, and they made some very strong remonstrances to Baba
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who, it is said, answered them with arrogance. The Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , in
writing to the Persian government, said, " Don't you know that the
" power of the Osmanlis has been established for many centuries ?"
And he was answered, in return, " You may talk of the antiquity of
" the Osmanlis, but recollect that the kingdom of Persia dates from
" Kaiumers, who was the first King of the world."
As Hassan Aga, head of the tribe of Gourds which had come over
to the Serdar, was an enemy to Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , and related by marriage
to the Serdar, he immediately brought over all his tribe from the Baya
zid territory to that of Erivan.
On the 7th I reached Etchmiatzin, in a torrent of rain, and came
quite unawares upon the venerable chief of the Armenian church, who
received me in the most friendly manner, and gave me his own apart
ment to live in. He informed me that he had not long finished the