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SKETCHES OF PERSIA.


SKETCHES OF PERSIA.

By SIR JOHN MALCOLM,
AUTHOR OF 'HISTORY OF PERSIA,' 'HISTORY OF INDIA,' ETC., ETC.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1861.


LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.

TO
JOHN FLEMING, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., &c.,
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL BOARD OF CALCUTTA,
BY
HIS MOST SINCERE AND ATTACHED FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.

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CONTENTS.

...

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 Page
Introductionxi
 
CHAPTER I.
Voyage from Bombay to the Persian Gulf1
 
CHAPTER II.
Muscat6
 
CHAPTER III.
The Persian Gulf and Abusheher15
 
CHAPTER IV.
Camp at Abusheher—Horses—Abdûlla Aga—Anecdote of an Arab22
 
CHAPTER V.
Hunting and hawking—Entertainment of the Shaikh—Tollemache—
Mirage—Nadir Shâh and Turkish ambassador28
 
CHAPTER VI.
Elchee's lectures—Mehmandar's journal—Arab nurse—Blue-Beard—
Persian ceremony—King's picture37
 
CHAPTER VII.[viii]
Mountaineers—Valley of Kazeroon—Virtue of Nitric Acid—Rizâ