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MODERN PERSIA AND ITS CAPITAL 



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Photograph from Faye Fisher 



THE LORD CHIEF OF THE PARSEES, OR FIRF-WORSHIPFRS, OF PFRSLA. 



The cashmere coat is both costly and picturesque. Lest they pollute the earth by burial, 

 th< Parsees dispose of their dead by placing* the bodies in a Tower of Silence, which is 

 Situated on a hill far from human habitation, but accessible to the "corpse-eating clogs and 

 birds." 



