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crap, accept his offers of accommodation. We had 
v — * — 1 reason afterwards to regret our imprudence ; 
for, in addition to the privations we endured 
beneath his roof, we found ourselves thwarted 
in every undertaking, by his interference, and 
very often by his actual misrepresentations to 
the Governor and police-officers. He would not 
allow the Prince to grant us permission for the 
removal of any article of antiquity we had 
purchased, although they were all condemned 
to serve as building materials ; and we had 
soon reason to apprehend, that we were accom- 
panied, wheresoever we went, by as dangerous 
a spy as the jealous police of that country 
could possibly place over us. The room he 
allotted to our use was a kind of antechamber, 
destitute even of the meanest article of furniture ; 
and here we slept upon the bare floor : nor 
should we have noticed the rigour of our fare, 
if it had not borne the respectable name of 
English hospitality. 
Cavems of The Prince prepared his shallop for us on the 
next day, with twelve oars, to visit the ruins and 
caverns of Merman ', at the extremity of the 
principal harbour. The Commodore and the 
metropolitan Bishop accompanied us. Before 
(0 In-Kerman, according to Pallas, means ‘ The Town of Caverns' 
