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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎186] (219/360)

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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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i86 THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE
It is considered most unlucky to turn beggars away from
the door unless they are given something, be it only an
onion or a scrap of bread. If a child of the house is ailin?
o'
two or three krans in copper money are put under its
pillow at night, and in the morning the coins are given to
the mendicants making their rounds, the child's complaint
having been supposed to have passed into the money;
and of course, as is natural, the beggars are not forgotten
at the festive seasons of marriage or of the birth of a
son.
Christmas was now approaching fast, and I found our
pretty house a very chilly winter residence. As we
expected to leave Kerman after the New Year, and travel,
my brother thought it would be wiser to forswear fires
altogether, fearing that if we got accustomed to them we
should probably get ill when our tent-life began. So in the
house we wrapped ourselves up in furs and long-lined boots
as if equipped for an Arctic expedition, dressing far more
lightly when we went out, as it was always warm in the
brilliant sunshine.
Just at the end of December the news that a Boundary
Commission was being formed to delimitate the last piece
of frontier between the Indian and Persian Empires
reached us.
My brother hoped to be put on this Commission, as
the boundary line would run between his consular district
of I ersian Baluchistan and British Baluchistan, but our
orders did not come for some time. However, I did my
utmost to get ready, in case we were sent off in a hurry,
packing many boxes of stores, writing lists of their
contents, and so on.
But the days passed by, and no tidings of any sort

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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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