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According to their ideas, the European had stolen a most 
valuable asset in the shape of a pattern Martini Henry rifle, 
which he had carried off out of the country, only to reproduce 
others to sell at a huge price to the poor Persians whom he had 
defrauded of their birthright. 
2. 
The following story is repeated on the authority of one of 
the oldest headmen of the Mervdasht villages. According to 
him, about fifty years ago an English traveller came to Perse- 
polis, collected some stones at the Takht-i-Jamshid, and placed 
them in boxes. He then went on to the Naqsh-i-Rustam, 
where he tried to scale the face of the rock, in order to enter 
stone weight of some ashy-coloured dust, and also a closed 
metal casket. These he carefully rolled in cloth and packed 
in a box. That evening some Persians, who had seen what 
had been done, sent word to Muhammad Rafi’ Khan, a well- 
known Kalantar (headman) of Mervdasht, now dead. The 
latter came the following morning to arrest the traveller and 
to seize the articles found in the tombs, but the stranger had 
disappeared during the night. Horsemen were sent in put- 
suit as fa mamzadeh Ismail, but did not succeed in 
effecting his arrest. The Kalantar, who subsequently ascended 
to the tomb by means of the tackle which had been left behind, 
found a great stone chest, which it was believed the Englishman 
had broken open, and thence extracted the articles mentioned. 
Il. 
Europeans Fixping Hippen TREASURE AT PERSEPOLIS 
BY Means or Maaic Arts. 
It is said that about twenty-five years ago two English- 
men came to Shiraz in company with a third person, who from 
his appearance was believed to have been a Persian. Thence 
they went on to Persepolis, where they remained three days. 
On the third day after their arrival, Abbas Khan, one of the 
leading men of the neighbourhood, was out shooting alone and 
