"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٣‎٧] (٥٨٢/٦٨)

TO ARTEMITA, OR KHAN-E-KEEN. 3^
Going for three hours more on the same course, having all the
way barren and hilly ground, we arrived just before noon at
Kassr-Shirine; and about a quarter of an hour before entering it,
we touched at a bend of the river coming from that place, without
crossing its stream in our way.
We found at the caravanserai a drove of asses, laden with
salt, which had been brought from Mendeli, and was trans
porting to Kerrund : it was of the rock kind, and was said to
be procured in abundance from salt-mines in that neighbourhood.
A few questions put to the people who were employed in the
conveyance of this commodity, though asked with great caution,
were sufficient to excite suspicion of my motives; so that it was
found unsafe to follow them up by others.
The Sheeah sect of the Moslems, which embraces nearly all
the Persians, appeared to me to be much more fanatic than
the Soonnees, whom they regard as heretics, and themselves as
orthodox ; which order is of course reversed by their opponents.
They are, comparatively speaking, the Roman Catholics of the
East,—revering tombs, and saints, and relics, more than the
Soonnees. They are more punctual, and longer in their prayers
and washings, and they despise the Soonnees heartily for their
want of ceremony; besides which, many of them will neither eat
nor drink knowingly with an unbeliever ; nor even take water
out of the same cup after him, without first cleansing it of its
defilement. Among such a people I felt myself continually
under apprehension, and was straitened so much in my oppor
tunities of making observations on the route, or of noting them
down, that as long as I remained with them, I despaired of
being able to record more than outline memorandums for future
reference and use.
Towards evening, under pretence of washing in the river
and performing my evening devotions by the stream, I stole
an hour to ramble over the ruins here. The pile more parti
cularly called Kassr Shirine, is a square of about one hundred