'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.' [‎37] (72/524)

RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE.
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this power, though generally a man of high rank, is generally also un
derstood to purchase the nomination at very large prices. The propor
tion of the purchase is the proportion of course of the demands on the
country: the villager groans under the oppression, but in vain shrinks
from it; every argument of his poverty is answered, if by nothing else,
at least by the bastinado.
The information of the appointment was premature: Mahomed
Hassan Khan, an officer of rank, had indeed been dispatched from
Shiraz, but he was entrusted with a more private commission to the
Envoy. On the 19th his immediate approach to Bushire was an
nounced. As, independently of the confidence which by this mission
the Government appeared to repose in him, he possessed high personal
rank, (as one of the Chiefs of the Karctguzlou tribe, one of the most nu
merous, warlike, and respectable of all under the jurisdiction of Persia,)
the first Minister at Shiraz wrote to the Envoy to desire that He would
send the person next in rank to himself to receive him. The Envoy
accordingly ordered me to proceed on the occasion. I went, accom
panied by Mr. Bruce and Dr. Jukes, and escorted by Cornet Wil-
lock with ten troopers, and five Chattars. The Chattars are those
running footmen who, in fantastical dresses, generally surround the horse
of a great man; but the name is applied not only to these attendants of
shew, but to those messengers also who perform their journies on foot,
and perform them with a dispatch almost incredible. When we had
proceeded about a mile we met the stranger. He was thinly at
tended, having travelled in haste. When we approached, our
little squadron drew up in a line as he passed; and we ad
vanced, and made our respective compliments. We then all turned
back together, and brought him into the presence of the Envoy, who
received him sitting on one corner of the sopha, but rose just as he
approached it. We were all dressed with more or less ornament in
honour of our guest; and during his visit we kept on our hats. The
Nasakchee Bashee had already fallen into his train, when we first met
him; and during the short stay which he now made, the Vice-goyemc^