HISTORY OF THE SHEIK OF BUSHIRE. 
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was here assisted to throw off his old clothes, and to put on his new 
and distinguishing apparel. The whole present consisted of a pon¬ 
derous brocade coat with a sash, and another vest trimmed with furs, 
and valued altogether at one hundred and fifty piastres, though the 
receiver would pay for the honour (in presents to the bearer and to the 
Prince in return) the sum, perhaps, of a thousand tomauns. When he 
was invested, his late clothes were carried away as the perquisite of the 
servants. After this, the firman was read, declaring the motives which 
had induced the Prince to confer so marked an honour on Ac a Ma¬ 
homed Jaffer, and then every one present complimented him on 
the occasion, with a “ Moobarek bashed , Good fortune attend you.” 
After this the company smoked, drank coffee, and eat sweet cakes; 
and then mounting their horses escorted the Governor into his town. 
The Governor, in his glittering but uneasy garb, re-entered Bushire , 
amid the noise of cannon and the bustle of a gaping multitude; and 
the ceremony closed. 
These honours were conferred on Aga Mahomed Jaffer, as a 
compensation for his late indignities, probably through the influence of 
his brother; but his brother had a less questionable merit, than that of 
thus revenging the wrongs of his own family: for to his influence his 
deposed predecessor owed his life. When the unhappy Sheik of 
Bushire was dragged to Shiraz , and hurried into the presence of the 
Prince, all his crimes real or fictitious were immediately accumulated in 
his face. Of every vice in the catalogue of enormity he was pronounced 
guilty, till the passions of the Prince were so exasperated, that he or¬ 
dered his victim to be decapitated on the spot. Mahomed Nebee 
Khan then threw himself at the Prince’s feet, and entreated that the 
life of the wretch might be spared. The Prince was sufficiently ap¬ 
peased to grant the supplication, but ordered the Sheik to be blinded. 
Again, a second time, his intercessor threw himself at the Prince’s feet, 
and saved the prisoner’s eyes. The Prince contented himself with 
ordering the Sheik into confinement. 
The particular interest which these changes might have excited in the 
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