"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. [‎١‎٨‎٢] (٥٨٢/٢١٣)

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their labours. It was to commemorate this instantaneous flight,
we were told, that the old name of Nussway was changed to the
present name of Goolpyegan, or Gelpyegan, which, in old Per
sian, is significant of the event described:— Gel, being the name of
mortar; pye, the name of the feet; and gan, the completion of the
compound; which, taken altogether, means " fled away, with the
mortar still unwashed from them."
In our passage through this town, I noticed several large
blocks of blue stone, with Arabic and Persian inscriptions on
them, in characters of a very old form, now broken and scattered
about; and near the khan in which we lodged, were two rude
statues, apparently intended for lions, as large as life, but of the
worst possible execution. Goolpyegan, for such is the most gene
ral way in which the name of the place is pronounced, contains
at present about two thousand dwellings, and from five to six
thousand inhabitants. The people are all Sheeah Moslems, and
there are neither Jews nor Christians resident among them.
Here are three poor mosques, a small and dirty bath, five
khans, and several long ranges of covered streets where the bazaars
are held, and the chief trades carried on. A manufacture of
coarse cotton cloth and thread also exists here; but no other
articles are produced, except for the immediate supply of the
town itself. The markets are tolerably well furnished with the
necessaries of life at a cheap rate; but the people are in general
extremely poor, and their town is of a corresponding appearance.
O ct. 2nd. We had been stared at by visitors, and questioned
and cross-examined as much as if we had been a Chinese party,
instead of persons believed to be Arabs. The chief cause of
this appeared to be, our having the hardihood to travel alone, and
not putting ourselves under the protection of a caravan. It was
sufficiently adventurous, they thought, for people of the country
o move from one village to another alone; but no Persian in his
senses won d go fuither. To see, therefore, three perfect strangers
ermg on by themselves, over such a tract of country, and in