TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND 

 SPORT. 



FROM 'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.' 



SHIRAZ TO BUSHIER 



BY CAPT. CLAUDE CLERK, C.I.E. 

 [MAGA. SEPT. 1862.] 



THE campaign in Persia was a short and successful 

 one. The troops under Sir James Outram had 

 been everywhere victorious. In the course of a few 

 months two large Persian armies, leaving their camps 

 standing, had, after a slight resistance, fled, com- 

 pletely disorganised the one to the mountain fast- 

 nesses in the neighbourhood of Kauzeroon, the other 

 to the arid plains of Khuzistan. The officer in com- 

 mand of the latter, a Kajar, a prince of the blood- 

 royal, had written to the Shah, and had assured him 

 that though in due course of time the heads of all 



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