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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎301] (344/360)

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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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TEHRAN REVISITED
301
word to the officer settled matters satisfactorily. That
personage waved the prisoner away with a grand gesture,
commanding him to 'lose himself as soon as possible, and
he vanished in a second down the labyrinthine passages of
the bazaar. Imprisonment, like most things in this ill-
governed land, is merely a question of money. If the
relatives of a prisoner are rich, they buy him off, but should
they refuse to do their duty in this way, the gaolers feed
their captive, running up long bills for his nourishment, as
they hope to extort a large sum from him on his release.
If the man happens to be poor he has indeed a bad time,
as he is forced to subsist on the precarious donations of
the charitable.
******
The weather at this season was as warm and sunny as
the early part of an English summer, and I remember that
Madame de Balloy, the French Minister's wife, gave a
picnic at Kasr Firouze, a shooting pavilion belonging to
the Shah, some four miles north of Tehran, on December
21st, and we ate our lunch in the open air.
Christmas Day was so filled with friendliness and good
wishes as to make us forget how far we were from home,
and in the afternoon the English played polo on the big
Meidan, or parade-ground, of Tehran, and thus the ancient
Persian sport of chogan was revived, and mighty Demavend
again beheld the game once played by the Achaemenian
sovereigns. The day wound up with a dinner and dance
given by Lady Durand to all the English and Americans
in Tehran, at which appeared two journalists in khavki
suits and flannel shirts, who were actually traversing Persia
from north to south on bicycles.
In riding about the broad streets of Tehran with their
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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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