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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎95] (126/360)

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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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KERMAN AND ITS ENVIRONS
95
He consented readily enough, and one dark, moonless
night, the maiden opened that hidden door, and an awful
massacre ensued, in which the Fire-Worshippers were
ruthlessly exterminated, and the standard of the Prophet
was planted on the topmost summit of the pile. The
general had given careful orders to his soldiery to see that
no harm came to the girl, and when the assault was over
she was brought into his presence. He was fairly
astounded at her loveliness, but not being able to find a
reason for her treachery, he asked her whether her father
had been very cruel to her, that she had thus betrayed him.
She replied that, on the contrary, he had cherished her
with a never-failing tenderness, and that her slightest wish
had been as a law to him. At this glimpse of her hard
heart the young chieftain's love was turned into loathing.
He gave orders for her to be tied to a wild horse, which
his cavalry pursued with savage shouts across the plain,
and thus the Tarpeia of Kerman perished miserably.
Kerman lies on the great oblong plain of Rafsinjan,
some eighty miles in length, and stretching northwards
beyond Bahramabad. Near the town different tracts are
brought into cultivation in alternate years, and oxen
plough up the hard soil for crops of barley, opium, castor-
oil, melons and cotton, donkeys bringing panniers full of
the crumbled mud-walls of the old city to be spread on the
ground as manure.
Beyond this lie many miles of />ut, or solidified mud, the
only vegetation being a sort of vetch, but a little grass
grows near the few streams, and it was in these favoured
spots that we came across the flocks of sheep and goats.

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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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1 volume (313 pages)
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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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Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm

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English in Latin script
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