"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. [‎٢‎٤‎١] (٥٨٢/٢٧٢)

VILLAGE OF MAYAR.—PERSIAN INSCRIPTION. 241
At this pass there was a small custom-house for taking account
of the entry and departure of goods from Ispahan, but not for
receiving the duties. On the right, in a plain, were seen some
villages, but the general character of the prospect was dull and
barren, with dry plains, and ridges of mountains perfectly bare,
and of very broken and pointed summits.
When we mounted and continued our way, our course lay
first south-west, and then south-south-east, but was on the whole
nearly south ; and after passing some walls of gardens and small
villages, now deserted from want of water, we arrived about an
hour and a half before sunset at the village of Mayar, which is
esteemed nine fursucks from Ispahan, from whence we had been
travelling ten good hours, at a quick walking pace.
This village, which is seated in a narrow defile of the plain,
between bare hills, is small, and almost totally ruined, there being
now only a few gardens with their occupiers there. An excellent
caravansera, of a more highly-finished kind than we had yet seen
in the country, on the public road, is also abandoned, and going
fast to decay ; but as it offered us the temporary shelter we
required, we halted here for the night.
Oct. 15th.—While we were preparing to move at an early
hour in the morning, the attention of the Dervish was attracted
by the sight of a Persian stanza inscribed on the brick-wall of the
recess in front of our chamber. Some sorrowing lover had pro
bably written it, under the warm recollections of his mistress; and
Ismael, whom it powerfully reminded of his young lover at Bag
dad, was moved to a degree of feeling which I was still unable to
comprehend. The Persian verse, as far as he was able to interpret
it in Arabic, expressed the following lamentation:— 4 When the
remembrance of thee steals into my heart, like a spy in the night,
tears of water first flow from my eyes ; but these soon give place
to tears of blood.' After repeating the verse in Persian aloud for
several times, and evidently with a high degree of admiration, and
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