Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ...and light boots. The king passed us at a distance on horseback, and we made our bows. He was preceded by a body of chatters, who are dressed with fantastical caps on their heads, and lively coloured clothes. No other person was near him, nor indeed is any other permitted. The king of Persia is an insulated being, alone in his court. How different is the state of the sultan at Constantinople, who is almost concealed by the crowds of his attendants! The princes followed, and then the mob. After this we repaired to a tent, where the ameen-eddoulah had prepared a Persian breakfast for us. On the 26th, the negotiating parties met to discuss a point reserved in the treaty. The conference terminated without any decision; and in this state of uncertainty the question remained for three days, when we were told that it had been decided to our satisfaction; and that I was to see the king on the 30th, and to depart for England as soon after as possible. On the 30th, accordingly, the envoy and I breakfasted with the minister, in the expectation of our introduction to the king. His majesty, however, had gone to ride to Shem-Iroun (" the Candle of Persia,") a village under the Ee mountain, celebrated for the beauty of the situation and the salubrity of its air. We remained with the minister all the morning. The ameen-ed-doulah was there; his spirits were depressed by the intelligence which he had received from Ispahan (the government of his son), that the melting of the snow and rain had so swoln the Zaiande-rood, that it had overflowed and injured the country to the amount of three lacks of piastres. It had destroyed, besides many houses and buildings, a large bund or dam, nearly opposite to the Chahar Bagh No. The bund was the work of Abbas, ...
