'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.' [‎70] (109/524)

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the mission, amongst whom were disposed some To the right
and left were the pipe-trimmers, who carried all the smoking apparatus
in boxes fashioned for the purpose* Behind the gentlemen and the
moonshees came a great crowd of Persians on horseback and, to close
the whole, the body guard came along in goodly rows, and made an ad-
mirable finish to the groupe.
The baggage all loaded on mules preceded us regularly on our march,
so that when we arrived at the end of our stage we always found our
tents pitched.
The arrangements of our camp were as follows -.—There were two
state tents, one for dinner, the other for receiving company. The latter,
with the Envoy's private tent, were enclosed within walls. Around
these were the tents of the gentlemen of the mission, each person having
his own. There was also one appropriated to cooking, and many others
of a smaller size for the servants, and the guard of cavalry.
After our dinner was over, which was generally an hour or two after
sun-set, the dinner tent was taken down, loaded on the mules, and sent
onwards to the next stage in readiness to receive us. About day-break
in the morning, the camp begun to break up; and before our breakfast
was over, for which one tent was left, all the rest of the ground was
cleared, and the baggage was far on its road to the next stage. The
Persians are so accustomed to this manner of life, that they pitch and
unpitch a camp with the most perfect dexterity and order. Much of
course depends upon the chief of the Feroshes or tent-pitchers, called
the Ferosh -Bashee, who must necessarily be very active. The man who
filled this department in our mission was very clever, but probably a
great rogue, of which at least he displayed a presumptive proof, as he
had lost an ear, the forfeit of some former misdemeanour. The office
of Charwardar or Chief Muleteer, is another also that requires much
activity and watchfulness, to superintend properly the loading and un
loading of the mules with order and dispatch.
See Plate VIR in which they are incidentally introduced.