Photograph from Faye Fisher 



AN OPEN-AIR RESTAURANT IN PERSIA 



These public cooks are preparing mutton, which is cut in small pieces, skewered on a 

 long iron pin, and broiled over hot beds of charcoal. It is very delicious. The flat sheets 

 on the ground at the right, resembling bits of paper or cloth, are pieces of native bread 

 which comes in strips only a half inch thick but two and a half feet in length. A piece is 

 torn off and the mutton en brochcttc when well done is taken off the pin and eaten with 

 the bread. 



claims the near approach of a camel 

 caravan. 



Then comes the mush, mush of padded 

 feel ; shadow}-, ungainly forms loom out 

 of the darkness, and camel after camel 

 shuffles past, hearing a slumbering driver 

 swaying aloft in the folds of his rough 

 toll mantle. 



\fier a rapid descenl through barren 

 gullies comes a sweeping view of actual 

 Persia. 



Broad, brown, rolling" plains extend be- 

 yond the limit of vision, even in the clear, 

 thin air of the plateau, and the naked 

 southern scar]) of the mountains shows 

 not a vestige of green. At lower levels 

 irrigating ditches, which seem to flow up- 

 hill, slnggishly follow the curving hill- 

 sides; orchards and mud-walled gardens 

 begin to appear; and before long the tur- 

 quoise domes and crenellated walls of the 

 city of Kazvin come in sight. 



