1 for travelling to Lahore. We employed that time in studying
2 the Persian language, as the knowledge of it would hu iit.it
3 our gettingttti engagement. But we could not remain there h>ng,
4 being continually ill-treated and robbed, anil we therefore thought
5 it preferable ti go overland to Lahore, by the way ot l(isp..hau,
6 Heirr.t, and L'ahul. On this journey we hail again to endure
7 a great deal of annoyance from the Persians, who being detente. I
8 by the Russians in war, well.' anxious to avenge themselves oil
9 ««'; they treated us, in fact, worse than their (logs, cheating,
10 robbing, and insulting u- to Mich a degree, that. M. De lurk
11 on one occasion cocked bis pistol to lire at a radar (road-keeper)
12 v.bo was very insolent ; hut I prevented him from executing
13 his design. Arriving at II Ispahan, we found there a gallant
14 governor, Hosruff Khan, from whom we met with a kind
15 reception, and who gave us some medical practice, by appoint¬
16 ing us to attend about, forty Russian prisoners, some ot whom
17 were suffering from wounds and others from fevers. At this
18 time we learned that the Russians were at Tahris, that Abbas
19 Mirzn had taken flight, together with his wives, to Hanu'dau,
20 and that the latter had upbraided the Molla (lugh priest) for
21 having induced the Shah to wage war with the Russians, by
22 assuring him that the Persians would remain unhurt by the
23 fiery balls of the Russian guns, as his prayers would render
24 them invulnerable. The priest took their reproof so much to
25 heart, that lie soon afterwards died. It is commonly sai l, tlmt
26 Abbas Mi rca exclaimed, on ttiat occasion -‘Pul bigirrnd, we
27 peg bi/rtivend "—“ The Russians shall take money, and go back
28 to their country " In consequence of tint fatigues and toils
29 which we bad to endure at Shims, as well as on our journey
30 to HIspahan, my companion 'aught a nervous fever, which
31 weakened his mind and body to such a degree, that he no
32 longer wished to go on to I altore, and he persuaded rue to
33 return with him to Bagdad. At Hispahan, a conspiracy was
34 formed by the native doctors against our lives, of which we
35 were informed by an Armenian, and, by the interference ot
36 the governor, we were preserved. I availed myself of ray
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