"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. [‎٢‎٤‎٢] (٥٨٢/٢٧٣)

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DEPARTURE FROM MAYAR.—RUINS.
looking alternately at the writing and at me, he exclaimed, 4 Ah !
how hard it is to have one's heart divided between Philosophy
and Love ! The first would make me your disciple and your
follower throughout the world ; but the last—yes ! it cannot be
otherwise,—that will make me abandon all my dreams of wisdom
and perfection, and hasten my return to the young Elias, the
moment that you embark upon the ocean for India.' ' A1
Ullah,' 4 It is with God,' I replied; and the Dervish repaired
with sorrow to his labours.
We departed from Mayar soon after sun-rise, and went south
easterly across a desert and gravelly plain. Our course gradually
turned more to the southward, and was nearly south-south-east
throughout the whole. The character of the country was exactly
similar to that over which we had passed on the preceding day:
flat and barren plains, bounded by ridges of bare rocky moun
tains, with a few deserted villages and caravanseras seen in dif
ferent directions, and no water. Our whole distance was six
fursucks, according to report, which we rode in about seven hours,
as it was full an hour past noon when we entered Komeshae.
At the distance of a mile before we reached this place, we
came on the ruins of a deserted village, where there were now
only a few gardens artificially watered, several large pigeon towers
like those at Ispahan, and an extensive burying-ground. The
principal object visible in this last, was a large tomb, crowned by a
cupola rising from amidst trees, and standing at the foot of a
rocky mountain, its sacred precincts being marked by an en
closing wall. As this was close to the high road, we alighted
here, under pretence of reposing for a moment in the shade; the
sun being powerfully hot in the parched plain near, and a dead
calm prevailing. We found at the place a troop of Persian sol
diers, who had made it their quarters as they halted on their
march from Shiraz to Ispahan with public money, under escort.
These were dressed in the usual costume of the country, but