"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"". [‎٣‎٢‎٧] (٣٩٠/٣٦٢)

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being as frequently met with amongst them as
the darker colours; but the features and ex
pression are decidedly Asiatic, and the dress
adopted both by the men and women is ex
ceedingly picturesque and becoming. Although
Christians, the women go veiled when out of
doors, though probably more to avoid insult
from the Moslem population, than from any
idea that propriety required it.
The fruit season having just commenced, in
the early morning the market, rich in tempt
ing-looking basket loads, and gay with bright
flowers, presented a treat indeed to English
eyes. It was not a little amusing, also, to
watch the veiled beauties making little oppor
tunities for affording a glimpse of occasionally a
very pretty face, while chaffering among apples,
grapes, mulberries, and apricots, which ap
peared strange, and filberts and honest red-faced
hazel-nuts actually seemed to have no business
there among turbans, yellow slippers, and sack-
jumping young ladies—for such, be it said w ith
sorrow, is the graceful action of the Turkish
dames, in the streets at least; and whose
charms, could one but get a fair look at them,