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'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎31] (66/524)

The record is made up of 1 volume (438 pages). It was created in 1812. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE. 31
other provinces for the remainder, to convert them at Shiraz into fire
locks, by affixing to the original barrel the new lock. Provisions also,
of all sorts, were collecting into magazines at Shiraz. These prepara
tions were hastened by the Prince himself from personal motives. His
dexterity in hitting a mark with a gun at full gallop, and in cutting
asunder an ass with one blow of his sword had been so much exagge
rated, that the King became desirous of witnessing these exploits, and
would have sent for his son to court, if the apprehensions at this time of
General Malcolm's return from India with an army had not furnished
a seasonable necessity for the Prince's presence in his own provinces;
and he prepared himself therefore, with great zeal, to march to Bender*
Abassy, to await there the arrival of the English in the Persian Gulph.
As a specimen of Persian wit, as well as in the relation of a Persian's
proficiency in English, I extract literally, from Jaffee. Ah's letter, the
following account of the Prince of Shiraz: —"As he is a great quiz
" and flatterer, he flattered me much, and I made an equal return to
" him. Owing to the immense dust that blown all the while upon the
u road, my face and beard covered with dust, and appearing myself to
" be white, the Prince therefore sayed to me, that my black beard be-
H came with grey hairs in his service ; I returned that whoever serves
" Khadmuie Boozurk Whan (His Highness) becomes white-faced for
" eternity, as the common proverb among the Persians, that when a man
** serves his master with zeal, he says to his servant 4 too sefeed, white
" face/ and on the contrary they say 6 roo seeah, black face:'" two
very common expressions in the country, denoting severally honour and
disgrace.*
It is not an unfair criterion of the new impulse which the Court of
* When Amurath I. instituted the Janizaries, a celebrated Dervish pronounced this
blessing over the new corps: " Let them be called Janizaries ( Yengi Chens, Or new
« soldiers) ma^ their countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious! their sword
* keen! may their spears always hang over the heads of their enemies ! and wheresoever
« they go, may they return with a white face" Gibbon's note illustrates the text by the
Roman phrase, Hie nigcr est^ hunc tu, Romane, caveto. Vol. VI. p. 320, 4tQt

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A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.

Publication Details: London : Longman, 1812.

Physical Description: xvi. 438 p. ; 4º.

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'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎31] (66/524), British Library: Printed Collections, W 2806, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023686206.0x000043> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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