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]48 REMARKS ON A RECENT JOURNEY
26. Fruit and supplies, whether of giain or meat, can be procured
at Kauzeroon in good quantity, but these could not be depended on by
a force entering Persia, unless the tribes were foi }ou. Frozen snow
is collected in the mountains rising behind the town of Kauzeroon on ,
its North-eastern side, and is brought down during the summer for use
in the town. With care this snow can be taken to Bushire on a relay
of mules even during the hottest months, but it keeps only a few hours
after arrival.
27. As illustrative of revenue management in Persia, I may men- j
tion that during a week or more I passed in a garden immediately
without the town, a small civil war was going on between the Governor
and his followers on the one side, and certain other tribesmen or fac-
tionists on the other. Fights daily took place, and at length the Go
vernor had to conceal himself. When I left he was still hid and unable
to receive my return visit. The strife resulted on oppressive revenue
demands. It happened there was a change of Governors taking place,
the one newly appointed had not arrived from Shirauz. Meantime
none of the corn long reaped and stacked could be housed, because no
division of the crop could take place. Meantime also, the old Governor
was endeavouring to collect all he could of old debts, hence the uproar.
I noticed too, that the youths of the town, following the example of
their elders, turned out to the number of fifty or so, and had a battle
royal with slings and stones.
28. Before quitting the neighbourhood of Kauzeroon, I paid a pass
ing visit to the ruins and rock sculptures of Shapour. This old site
seems to have been excellently chosen. Scarped and lofty rocks look
down on a chasm of some 400 yards in width, through which pours
a fresh and copious stream, from a superior and bright little valley en
closed with precipitous hills. The scarp on the right of the chasm as
you enter bears the traces of the old fort of Shapour, and at the foot of
this scarp, close on the roadway, is the famous sculpture of the captive
Emperor Valerian at the stirrup of Shapour. The cutting is fresh and
bold ; to my notion far superior, in an artistic point of view, to any
sculpture at the Nakshi liustum near Persepolis. I
29. On the other side of the chasm are a series of rock sculptures
illustrative of historical or poetic subjects, and some of them in point of
execution almost equal to the Valerian,