Under Persian Skies: A Record of Travel by the Old Caravan Routes of Western Persia |
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Abadan Abadeh Abdul Ahwaz Allah Karam Khan anderun animals arrived Bagdad Bakhtiari Bandar Rig Basrah bazaar beautiful birds bridegroom British brought Bushire camels Captain Clegg caravan caravansary century charvardar colour courtyard Deh Bid desert Dil Gosha donkey dress European falcon farsakhs feet Ganaveh gardens gate Ghevam-ul-Mulk girl guests Hafiz Haidar Khan horses Hosein hundred Isfahan journey Kadjar Karoon Kazarun Kerbela Kerim Khan ketkhoda Khan's Kharg Kharg Island khola Kumishah looked miles minarets Mirza Mahmud morning mosque mountains mullah mutta marriage Najaf night passed Persepolis Persian Gulf reached Reza Shah Reza's ride river road rode rugs Russian Safar sent Seyjid Shapur sheikh Sheyab Shiah Shiraz shotóri Shushtar silver SIVAND soldiers stretch talk Teheran telegraph station tents thousand told traveller tribes village walls Wassmus women young
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Page 187 - O man, whosoever thou art and whencesoever thou comest, for I know that thou wilt come, I am Cyrus, and I won for the Persians their empire. Do not, therefore, begrudge me this little earth which covers my body.
Page 10 - Persian has kept the sense of the continuity of his history, and the essence of his racial 9 personality, as has no other ancient people whose history has greatly affected Western history. That, in short, the Persian one meets by the wayside to-day is very much the same sort of man as was his ancestor who went out with...
Page 10 - Xerxes, who watched and helped in the building of Persepolis, who went down before Alexander's army, and who conquered with his culture while he was being conquered by the physical power of the hordes that came under Seldjuk, Dschengis Khan, Tamerlane, and Osman.
Page 250 - Treaty, definite regions were claimed by each of these powers because of special geographical and economic interests — than it is to-day when Soviet Russia has technically and ostensibly surrendered back to Persia every concession granted to Czaristic Russia, except the Caspian Sea fisheries.
Page 250 - NOTWITHSTANDING the treaty of 1921 with the Russian Soviet Republic the northern part of Persia is in Russian hands.
Page 65 - Gulf to be settled in ; but even there (while the Kingdom of Persia continues in this state of confusion and anarchy) I cannot pretend to give you any great hopes of advantage.
Page 94 - Godar-i-Cham is by a wooden platform pulled on a strong cable attached to posts on the river banks. Both...
Page 31 - ARMY. faith, buy one of the fork-like instruments, also inscribed, with which true believers beat and stab their heads when they are roused to frenzy by the sight of the passion plays.
Page 10 - Bagdad, which, in spite of being Arabian and Iraqian and British, is an outpost of Persia.