تقرير عن رحلة في كشمير كتبه ديفيد لوكهارت روبرتسون لوريمر ورسائل من إميلي أوفرند لوريمر إلى والديها تم إرسالها من البحرين وكرمان [ظ‎‎٦‎٠‎٨] (١٢٩١/١٢٣٨)

KERMAN,
26 . 8 . 14 .
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Lock arrived bacK to me on Fri. 21st. He turned up
about 9.30 a.m, looking simply splendid and full of spirits
crying out for breakfast. I was not able to go to meet
him for of course he was driving back with the G.G. I
expexted the latter to come in for tea and so forth and had
everything ready in the dr. room. With great tact, however,
he drove straight off, so I was not compelled to sit chafing
in the next room until a ceremonious visit was got thro'.
1'he little trip has done him no end of good, tho* it could
not be called a rest cure. They started each a.ra. about
5 , had a lunch by the road side about 11 a.m. then reached th
their Journey's end any time about 7 or 8 p.ra., but it was
10 or 11 p.ra. before they got their dinner. The G.G. made a
most amusing and entertaining companion, far less boring L. says
than most Europeans. They discussed most things under heaven
including the relative advantages and disadvantages of 4 wives
and 1. The G.G. has four all in Teheran ! They have presented
him with tlr ee sons since his arrival here, within a space of
40 days.
The day after their arrival at Bam, they held a council of
war. The Bastis had dwindled to about 400 , but even that is
a troublesome no. to handle. Just before leaving this L.
had got the Nawab to write a Persian proclamation, explaining
to the people how aimtters were and why they must be ejected from
our private quarters and what the delinquencies of the Nazim
were and explaining tht no harm was interred to any of them if
they would quietly return to their homes. We made 15 copies
of this and from Larzln L. had it sent in and circulated to
various Mullas and people; this no doubt helped to account for
the reduced nos. The T n 0 . stands in a big garden enclosure
two sides of wh. are on the open desert but the other two
surrounded by other high-walled gardens. It was arranged
that de Mar^ with his Gendarmes should surround the two open
sides while two lots of B.s shouldl surround the other two penet
rating thro the surrounding gardens right under the T.O. walls.
L. had carefully reconnoltered the whole ground and made all
arrangements about ladders and scaling appliances. When all fot
four lots were in position, an ultimatum was to be sent in to
the people giving them IS minutes or so to clear out unmolested
and hand over the Nazim and a few other specified ringleaders.
L. says the council of war ^ was most amicable, and the Persian
leaders were greatly pleased with his plants and most ready to
fall in with them. Of course proceedings were conducted in
Persian of wh. de M. unhappily knows so little that L. had
perpetually to stop to translate and explain. This same
ignorance made it practically impossible for de M. to explain whal
he wanted to his own native officers, but at last it seemed that