"رحلة ثانية عبر بلاد فارس، أرمينيا وآسيا الصغرى إلى القسطنطينية، بين سنتي ١٨١٠ و١٨١٦. مع يوميات الرحلة مروراً بالبرازيل وبومباي وصولاً إلى الخليج العربي. مع تقرير لإجراءات السفارة البريطانية تحت إدارة السير جور أوسيلي، البارونيت، فارس وسام الأسد والشمس، مع خريطتين ونقوش من تصميم المؤلف." [‎٢‎٧‎١] (٥١٦/٣٢٢)

CHAPTER XVIII.
Intelligence having reached the Ambassador from Georgia, which
required an immediate conference with the King, our camp broke up
on the 16th of June, and we halted at Mahajeran, the first stage from
Hamadan, on the road to Sultanieh. Owing to the great plenty of
water, we found the country through which our road lay highly culti
vated, and thickly spread with villages. At two miles from Hamadan
we crossed a considerable stream, and met it again on arriving at our
stage. The peak ot Alwend, under which Hamadan is situated, bore
from Mahajeran, S. 40° W.
The next day we went to Kaboot Reheng, still in a fine district, rich
in corn, which was now nearly ripe. The heats of this and the pre
ceding stage were very oppressive; the thermometer being at 92 and 93
m our tents, at three o'clock. Owing to the great scarcity of wood,
the peasants collect for luel the common thorn, the K/ior S/mtur, which
overruns the country, and lay it up in stacks for winter.
On the 18th, we traversed a flat country to Kaleh Jogh, the inhabi
tants of which displayed a trait of perverseness of character which can
be found only under a despotic government. Since the villagers had
fled at our approach on the road to Hamadan, the Ambassador deter
mined no longer to accept the sursat, or provisions, allowed him by the
Government at the expense of the peasantry, and paid for every thing
himself, as it was furnished to us. But here the peasantry, without
reflecting that, if we chose, we might get provisions from them for
nothing, would not sell our servants bread, absolutely refusing, with an
obstinacy for which we could not account, except by supposing that
they were apprehensive, if it were known that they had sold their pro
visions, their Governors might make it a pretext for levying greater
contributions upon them than before.
We then travelled a short distance to Gav Sawar, a village situated
in a cooler district, and pitched our tents in a chemen, or pasture. The