'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎388] (459/516)

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ENTRY INTO TEHERAN.
his horse's feet. Many glass vases, filled with sugar, were broken
before him, and their contents strewed on his road. Every where
dervishes were making loud exclamations for his prosperity; whilst
a band of wrestlers and dancers were twirling about their mils (clubs),
and performing all sorts of antics to the sound of the copper drums
of Looties. Nothing could be more striking than the variety of
the scene that surrounded the King. Amongst the crowd I per
ceived the whole of the Armenians, headed by their clergy bearing
crosses, painted banners, the Gospel, and long candles. They all
began to chaunt Psalms as His Majesty drew near; and their zeal
was only surpassed by that of the Jews, who also had collected them
selves into a body, conducted by their rabbis, who raised on high a
carved representation on wood of the tabernacle, and made the most
outrageous cries of devotion, accompanied by the most extravagant
gestures of humiliation, determined that they at least should not pass
unnoticed by the Monarch. On coming close to the walls of the city,
the crowd of horsemen and people encreased to an extraordinary de
gree, and where they were confined in some places by the walls of
gardens, became quite stationary. In all the bustle I perceived the
King constantly looking at a watch carried by Shatir Bashi, anxious
that he should enter the gates exactly at the time prescribed by the
astrologers.