A Voyage Up the Persian Gulf: And a Journey Overland from India to England, in 1817Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - 252 pages |
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Abdoola Achmed Pasha advantages Aly Aga amongst ancient appearance appointed Arabian ARABIAN HORSE Arabs arms arrival assert attack attention authority Babylon Bagdad Bedooins believe Bombay Busheer Bussora camel caravanseray certainly chief civil command commonly considerable course Ctesiphon danger Daood Effendi desert DIARBEKIR distance enquiries entirely equally esteemed Euphrates extremely favour firman frequently greater ground halted honour horses immediately inferior informed Janizaries journey Kifri kind Koordistan Koords Mahomed Mahomedan Malabar Mangalore manners Maskat Merdin miles Montifics morning Mosul Mount Taurus mounted Nadir Shah nearly never night Nisibin obliged observed obtained occasion officers Omar Pasha once Ormus party Pashalik passed perfect perhaps Persian piastres pistols present race reached reign river road rode ruins Sayïd Sayud Pasha scarcely servant Shaik slaves Solyman sufficiently superior Tartar tents town traveller tribes Turk Turkish village Wahabees walls wealth whilst whole wonder Zezidees