'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [5] (32/360)
The record is made up of 1 volume (313 pages). It was created in 1901. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL OF PERSIA 5
across the great Enzeli Lagoon for Pir-i-Bazaar. We
Europeans sat in one under an awning, and our six rowers,
miserable-looking ragged fellows, worked very hard, raising
themselves almost upright with each stroke of their curious
spoonlike oars. The Lagoon was full of life. Flocks of
pelicans and gulls were feeding; cormorants fishing, their
long, snake-like necks alone visible; while cranes, ospreys,
eagles, teal, and snipe flew, swam, or dived, all seemingly
as tame as possible. Fish were leaping out of the
transparent water, and we passed fishermen drawing in
their nets, the spoils of which would go to supply the
' Russian Fisheries'—a line of buildings on our left where
much of the 1 caviare' of commerce is prepared. The
scenery became quite homelike as we left the Lagoon and
its islets of reeds and rushes, and turned into the muddy
river, the banks of which were bordered with rowans, hollies,
willows, and trails of briony ; but whatever the flora might
be like there was nothing to recall England in the landing-
place at Pir-i-Bazaar. To my dismay I found that we had
to step into a veritable sea of liquid mud, and struggle as
best we might along a plank sunk in mire, up a bank on
to what was comparatively solid ground. A false step
would have landed us in most unpleasant plight, and it was
with great relief that we saw our baggage carried up, as we
had heard that a bride coming out to Tehran had her
entire trousseau ruined by her boxes falling into the water at
this crisis of her journey. And, to multiply instances, the
piano of another Tehran acquaintance could not be hoisted
up that fatal bank, and lay for months at its foot, serving
as a most convenient landing-stage for passengers ! How
ever, we were fortunate enough to escape all such mis
chances, and were soon packed into small and rickety
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Through Persia on a side-saddle.
With an introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI.
Author: Ella C Sykes
Publication details: London, John Macqueen, 1901.
Physical description: xvi, 313 p; 8º.
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings ans page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references.
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- ORW.1986.a.1864
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- 'Through Persia on a side-saddle'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:2, 2a:2b, 3:16, 1:16, 16a:16b, 17:36, 36a:36b, 37:156, 156a:156b, 157:196, 196a:196b, 197:224, 224a:224b, 225:236, 236a:236b, 237:254, 254a:254b, 255:296, 296a:296b, 297:314, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- Sykes, Ella Constance
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