"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. [‎١‎٨‎٣] (٥٨٢/٢١٤)

TO GOOLPYEGAN.
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such times as these, excited a suspicion, either that our minds
were not perfectly right, or that our motives and intentions in
travelling, were not strictly pure. We answered all their enquiries
with great patience and civility, though the most common ones, of
« Where are you from ? whither are you going ?" were asked us so
frequently, and by such insignificant persons, that it became in
sufferably tedious. It was in a fit of despair produced by this
annoyance, that, thinking of Dr. Franklin's expedient in a nearly
similar case, I commanded Ismael to stand up, in front of our
recess in the khan, and proclaim with a loud voice what I should
prompt to him. He accordingly began :—
" He that hath ears to hear, let him hear ! Now, be it known
unto you, O brethren and fellow men, that the Hadjee Abdallah-
ibn-Suliman-el-Masri, the Dervish Ismael, his companion, and the
Fakeer Zein-el-Abedeen, their servant, are, all three, true and up
right Moslem worshippers of one indivisible God, admitting neither
partner nor companion ;—for God is great; there is no other God
but God; and Mohammed is the Apostle of God! I say again
unto you, O ye worshippers in the same faith, that we three, by
name repeated, come from Bagdad, and are going to Ispahan, on
business which the Lord best knoweth. Praised for ever be his
name ! We worship no false gods; we bear no enmity to the
ruling powers; and we are at peace with all mankind. In the
name of God, the Great and the Merciful, and truly for the sake
of him, suffer us then to repose in peace ! This is all which we can
declare of ourselves. Go ye forth, therefore, and declare it to the
world; but, since we owe nothing to any man, and desire only
peace, ask henceforth no more of us, for more cannot be revealed.
The effect which this harangue produced was that of shame in
some, and wonder in others ; and while more than one voice
exclaimed, " The men are possessed of devils, and are mad ;
others replied, in my hearing, " Then it is a very sensible mad
ness ; for, in truth, what have ye to do with them ?" After this
the crowd gradually dispersed.