"يوميّات رحلة من بلاد فارس إلى الهند عبر هراة وقندهار. وأيضًا تقرير رحلة إلى العاصمة الوهابية، الرياض في وسط الجزيرة العربية" [ظ‎‎٢‎٦] (٢٦٨/٥٢)

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n pa , rt 7' men with ‘heir camels. They evidently mistook
T °T lcade fOT T —ts. For immediately they “
^ley dtsmounted, turned their camels loose, and hurried
i heir goods into a small deserted building. After passino-
them we came on the freshest stream of waters I h
ever seen in Persia Tl, 0 . , , 1 1 tave
^ i • . " ia * llie water tasted delicious and ran
past in copious stream. Come Turcomans or no I could not
“r: tion r an hour ^ on r: ts .
oiaered the horses to be unbridled a ^ . i
-j ^ oi tea to be oronflT'prJ
and my carpet to be spread close along the bank. There J W
down and mused on the past. It is just a year to-day IceT
embarked at Bombay for Egypt, ere rOT(fe for Persia . ^ ^
has since had place, and yet how little 1 Strange thought in
SO i u e arise in man, and so they rose in me as I lay listening in
ns desolate plain to the gargle of the useless stream, and look
mg up into the deep and beautiful expanse of blue spaie
JZ r mi ' eS and * e gr0Und a ^ a “ sl °P- op ‘o the distant
set o/a f irr?' un,° W ^ enter - Sudden ' y *' TO horsemen
at full speed. What can it be? Two sheep-dogs are at
eir heels biting and barking. It is a flock of sheep. The first
who reaches the shepherd claims one of the flock in gift This is
an immemorial custom, doubtless originating in a sort !f black mail
A sheep is selected accordingly, and we move on.
rivulet 1 * lower downs, and passing another tricklinw
> ulet, green with water-cresses, we commenced to descend into
a ong and winding glen which divides the wall-like range from
i owns. t first our way lay among hold and naked cra^s
uch as one sees about Cheddar; then the path narrowed until
ecamo the hod of a torrent, now shrunk to the size of a brook
andT^kh Z P CliffS ’ and fringed With 013 wil ‘™ trees
and blackberry and rose bushes. Here and there a small patch
Of cultivated slope broke through the wilds. Anon the lock
fridges whirred across our road. At length, after a Zl
n g C0urse ° f f °“r ™iles, w e debouched on the open
i Z f,rst ” h ' n r sa ' v ‘ i,is sort ° f ti,ing “ oin ^
gave up, and contented myself with paying for „!, a , I <aw stolc „ '