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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.
Page | |
Introduction | xi |
CHAPTER I. | |
Voyage from Bombay to the Persian Gulf | 1 |
CHAPTER II. | |
Muscat | 6 |
CHAPTER III. | |
The Persian Gulf and Abusheher | 15 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
Camp at Abusheher—Horses—Abdûlla Aga—Anecdote of an Arab | 22 |
CHAPTER V. | |
Hunting and hawking—Entertainment of the Shaikh—Tollemache— | |
Mirage—Nadir Shâh and Turkish ambassador | 28 |
CHAPTER VI. | |
Elchee's lectures—Mehmandar's journal—Arab nurse—Blue-Beard— | |
Persian ceremony—King's picture | 37 |
CHAPTER VII.[viii] | |
Mountaineers—Valley of Kazeroon—Virtue of Nitric Acid—Rizâ | |