"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"". [‎٣‎٠‎٧] (٣٩٠/٣٣٨)

IN PERSIA.
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only being armed (chiefly with light spears
and swords of rude manufacture), and brought
what articles they had likely to find sale among
us. Their women accompanied them in con
siderable numbers, many of them with no
slight pretensions to good looks, which, con
trary to all Eastern notions of propriety,
they were by no means chary of displaying.
Judging from all appearances, these tribes
must lead even happier lives than more
civilized people, having but few wants and
those easily supplied by the means around
them—the two extremes, great wealth and
abject poverty, being utterly unknown.
The quantity of game seen on the river
side exceeded even that on the Karoon; the
duck were literally innumerable, and black
partridge rose from nearly every bush; wild
ho g (of which some were killed swimming
the river), wolves, antelopes, and jackals, were
constantly in view, and both guns and rifles
found constant employment •— a walk of a
few hundred yards, while the steamer was
wooding, making no slight addition to the
table for the day. The lion is also occasionally
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