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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎227] (264/360)

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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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TO KUHAK AND THE FRONTIER COMMISSION 227
confided to Nasrullah Khan that nothing would have
induced him to attempt this feat, but the fear that I, sitting
up aloft, would laugh at him if he declined.
From this point of vantage the country lay spread out
before us, and the old Governor could show the direction
in which lay the valuable date-groves, the quarrelling about
which was the reason for a demarcation of one of the
barrenest, most desolate and stony regions imaginable.
It was fortunate that my brother was good at talking
Persian, because the interpreter of the English, an Afghan,
was not readily understood by the Persians, and their
interpreters (fat Haji Khan) English was of the most
elementary description.
It was at this point that one of the difficulties of the
delimitation began, the Assad-i-Dowleh trying to make
trouble by proposing a ten days' delay, a reference to the
authorities at Tehran, and so on; but Nasrullah Khan
and Haji Khan went continually backwards and forwards
between the two camps, and the result of their unusual
amount of exercise was the removal of all friction for the
time being.
Although Orientals have a love of procrastination, yet on
this occasion, owing to a variety of causes, the Persians
despatched their business with commendable rapidity.
One reason that urged them was their horror of any great
heat. The climate of Baluchistan is well-nigh unendurable
during the summer months, and even now, at the begin
ning of March, we were always in shelter by nine o'clock
at latest, as the sun was getting fiercer daily; and we
noticed that the Persians, stout, and little addicted to
taking exercise, were much less able to bear the heat than
we were.

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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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