'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [166] (199/360)
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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166 THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE
the top, of each symbolic of Abbas, the standard-bearer
of Mahomet's army. The poor fellow stared wildly at us,
gasped, and then began to work himself up for a good
cry, a somewhat theatrical performance, I fancy, as the
snowy-turbaned mollah in charge endeavoured to check
his emotion by telling him that there was no need for it,
since he was safe.
The tomb was a great white plaster platform, covered
with a white sheet, on which was laid a copy of the
Koran, wrapped in a cloth. Both this and the sheet were
kissed by each faithful Mussulman who entered, and
were decidedly grimy from this method of veneration.
Our inquiries elicited nothing about the history of the
holy man buried here, and when the sacred stones were
produced we were keenly disappointed. They were
merely natural curiosities, the white markings on one
black boulder looking something like Persian characters,
and I noticed several stones of the same kind near our
camp, which we pitched some three miles above the
village.
***** *
Two Persian ladies announced their intention of calling
on me when I returned from Sagotch to Kerman, so my
brother betook himself to the Prince for the afternoon, and
I made the most elaborate toilette that my wardrobe
allowed, and strained every nerve to procure an elegant
tea, which Baji was to serve. At three o'clock my visitors
appeared with two daughters, three women slaves, two
small boys to guard their slippers, which they left at the
door of my sitting-room, and three eunuchs, who brought
kalians to them at intervals. The older ladies were most
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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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- ORW.1986.a.1864
- Title
- '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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