"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٢‎٥] (٣٩٠/٤٦)

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sepolis ; and the rest of the year they spend in
Babylon. And even the very thing which the
Persian monarchs used to wear on their heads,
showed plainly enough their extreme devotion
to luxury. For it was made, according to the
account of Dinon, of myrrh and of something
called labyzus. And the labyzus is a sweet-
smelling plant, and more valuable than myrrh.
And whenever, says Dinon, the king dismounts
from his chariot, he does not jump down, how
ever small the height from the chariot to the
ground may be, nor is he helped down, lean
ing on any one's hand, but a golden chair is
always put by him, and he gets on that to
descend; on which account the king's chair-
bearer always follows him. And three hundred
women are his guard, as Heraclides of Cumae
relates in the first book of his history of
Persia. And they sleep all day, that they may
watch all night; and they pass the whole night
in singing and playing, with lights burning.
" But Chares of Mitylene, in the fifth book of
his ' History of Alexander,' says : ' The Persian
kings had come to such a pitch of luxury,
that at the head of the royal couch there was