"جولة إلى شيراز عبر طريق كازرون وفيروز آباد مع ملاحظات متعددة حول سلوك الفُرس، عاداتهم، قوانينهم، لغتهم، وأدبهم، أُضيف إليها تاريخ بلاد فارس من موت كريم خان إلى سقوط سلالة زند" [‎٢‎٩‎٧] (٣٦٢/٣٢٣)

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hope that if he should be incapable of subsisting his army, it
would immediately disperse.* This movement compelled Lootf
Ulee Khan to retire to Zurqoon. He contrived to enter into a
correspondeUce with some of his partisans, who agreed to de
liver up the fort; but their designs were always discovered, and
the contents of their letters known as soon as they were
received.*
Hajee Ibrahim had been very importunate with A Moohum- Applies to
mud to march to the relief of Sheeraz, who contented himself mud for
with sending reinforcements. At the commencement of the assistance *
season, however, he marched from Tuhran, and practised his
troops by making them fortify every day the ground of their
encampment. As he advanced, he detached a force to occupy
the passes between Maeen and Eeruj, and encamped at the
latter place.J His attendants and sycophants flattered him with
the hope, that Lootf Ulee Khan would fly the instant he heard
of his approach. But they mistook the character of Lootf Ulee
Khan, whose ardent spirit courted either dominion or death.
His perseverance was unconquerable; and his resolution might
be called desperate. He became familiar with hardship, and
sought danger that he might find glory.§ His friends were the
companions of his misfortunes; for their riches had been accu
mulated under the family of Kureem Khan, and they now
become the partners of their evil destiny. Others, from affection
to his family, and supposing that they would participate in the
fall of the Zund dynasty, abandoned their houses, wives, and
* See Appendix, No. IX.
f Mirza Futh Ooliah, the secretary of Lootf Ulee Khan, divulged the whole of his
master's correspondence to Hajee Ibrahim, who could form no design without its being
immediately discovered,
J Places near Persepolis, on the route to Isphahan.
§ This is the language of an enemy.
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