"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. [‎٨‎٢] (٥٨٢/١١٣)

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VISITS AT KERMANSHAH,
despised the world, and the other wealthy and attached to it
hanging over each other's necks in all the sorrow of the most
closely united souls,)—there was something in all this so strange,
yet so affecting, that I felt my own sympathies powerfully touched
by the scene.
On our way, the Dervish was always too much occupied, either
by his own reflections, or in conversation with me, to attend to the
common duties of the road; so that all these, as I expected, had
fallen on me. But for this I was prepared; and although they^
occupied more of my time than was favourable to making such
ample observations on our route as I desired, yet they in no way
interrupted the general tranquillity of my mind, and I was there
fore content and happy.
The Dervish was as regardless of his own immediate concerns
as of mine ; for, after quitting Bakouba, he had lost a purse con
taining forty-five gold sequins,—a small bag, in which were some
fine stones that he had promised to engrave for his friends, during
his absence, at the first place he should find leisure,—as well as a
paper, in which were written certain commissions for him to exe
cute for his friend Elias, from Ispahan, the loss of which last
affected him more deeply than all the rest.
We had travelled thus far, however, happily together; and
each appeared satisfied with the other. On the road, the Dervish
scarcely ate or drank sufficiently to support nature, and slept
always on the bare earth without a covering. His sleep was sel
dom tranquil: for, besides his speaking dreams, I had been often
awakened by him in the night, when I found him sitting in a
corner, smoking his short pipe formed only of the clay-ball with
out a stem, and either repeating some passages of Persian poetry,
or sighing out occasional lamentations in his native tongue
We were in every sense of the word companions; and though
the vigilance of our look-out when alone, or the fear of being
betrayed to suspicious observers when in a caravan, occasioned us