SAFAR NAMEH
‘Warum bin ich vergänglich, O Zeus? so fragte die Schönheit.
Macht ich doch, sagte der Gott, nur das Vergängliche schön.
Und die Liebe, die Blumen, der Tau und die Jugend vernahmens,
Alle gingen sie weg weinend von Jupiters Thron.’
Goethe
‘Now, a traveller is a creature not always looking atsights—he remembers (how often!) the happy land of hisbirth; he has, too, his moments of humble enthusiasm aboutfire and food—about shade and drink.’
Kinglake
SAFAR NAMEH
PERSIAN PICTURES
A BOOK OF TRAVEL
LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1894
[All rights reserved]
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| AN EASTERN CITY | 1 |
| THE TOWER OF SILENCE | 19 |
| IN PRAISE OF GARDENS | 28 |
| THE KING OF MERCHANTS | 42 |
| THE IMAM HUSSEIN | 51 |
| THE SHADOW OF DEATH | 67 |
| DWELLERS IN TENTS | 83 |
| THREE NOBLE LADIES | 96 |
| THE TREASURE OF THE KING | 112 |
| SHEIKH HASSAN | 126 |
| A PERSIAN HOST | 143 |
| A STAGE AND A HALF | 156 |
| A BRIDLE-PATH | 168 |
| TWO PALACES | 187 |
| THE MONTH OF FASTING | 205 |
| REQUIESCANT IN PACE | 219 |
| THE CITY OF KING PRUSIAS | 236 |
| SHOPS AND SHOPKEEPERS | 247 |
| A MURRAY OF THE FIRST CENTURY | 260 |
| TRAVELLING COMPANIONS | 275 |
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