"سرد لإقامة في كردستان وفي موقع نينوى القديمة؛ مع مذكرات رحلة إلى بغداد عبر نهر دجلة ووصف زيارة إلى شيراز وبرسبوليس." [‎٢‎٣‎٩] (٤٥٠/٢٧٤)

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PLACE OF INTERMENT.
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most rapid and awful change took place ; the pulse
sunk and disappeared, and Dr. Tod came from him
to where I was sitting, saying he feared the worst.
I went and sat by him, as did Dr. Tod, nor did we
leave him while life remained. He fell from a sweet
sleep he had had for an hour into a heavy painful
stupor, and was evidently insensible to everything.
At half past ten all was over, without a struggle or
any apparent pang.
The place of sepulture was a consideration of
some difficulty. It was at first proposed that it
should be in the Armenian church, within the walls
of the city, where Mr. Sheridan, of Sir Harford
Jones's mission, was interred; but on making appli
cation to the acting governor, Aga Baba Khan, we
were informed that no dead body of whatever rank
or country could be admitted into the city, having
(lied without. Not even was this rule broken in the
case of the King's wife and Prince's mother, lately
deceased.
The inclosure containing the tomb of Hajiz was
then suggested; but it occurred to us, that, in mo
ments of fanaticism and popular turbulence, the
Hafizeea being a sort of public place, the power of a
weak government, even if exerted, might not be suf
ficient to protect the monument or even the remains
from insult. We then proposed that the interment
should take place within the garden where he had