'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.' [‎35] (70/524)

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fore, the Envoy felt himself compelled to remark, that the correspon
dence during the negociation must be absolutely and in every view in
dependent ; and He desired the Khan accordingly to intimate this de
termination to the Prince's Minister. The representation was immedi
ately successful; and to the line of conduct thus enforced, both parties
adhered throughout their future communications.
When this matter was adjusted, much friendly conversation followed,
and the affair of the cap and bald-head was laughed over. The Envoy
expressed indeed his wish to render the Khan in his visit as < comfort
able as possible; but repeated also his resolution to suffer no act of
inattention before servants and strangers. The Khan accordingly
(though as it was the Ramazan he would not smoke) left us seemingly
well pleased.
But in another instance the same want of respect was visible, though
the effect probably of ignorance only. On the 30th Oct. he sent a
present of some fruit and two horses, one for the Envoy and one for
the East India Company's Assistant Resident Sir Harford imme
diately returned that destined for himself, to remind the Khan of the
distinction.
On the 8th of Nov. arrived, carried cm fourteen mules, the balconak,
the customary present to an Embassador. It consisted of the following
articles:—
50 Lumps of loaf sugar,
35 Small boxes of different kinds of sweetmeats,
1 Mule load of lime-juice, consisting of ninety-six bottles,
23 Bottles of orange and other kinds of sherbet,
22 Bottles of different kinds of preserves, pickles. See,
4 Mule loads of musk-melons,
1 Ditto of Ispahan quinces.
Half ditto of apples,
1 Ditto of pomegranates,
1 Ditto of wine, thirty-nine bottles.
The whole was accompanied by a letter from Nasr Oalah Khan,
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