PREFACE. 
IX 
I feel at least that it will prove very acceptable to those who have 
shown him, as a stranger, so much friendship and hospitality. 
In my narrative I have confined myself to relate our proceedings 
from the time we left Bombay to my arrival at Constantinople. The 
sea voyages, from England to India, and from Constantinople to 
England, are too well known to require any thing more to be written 
about them. 
The engravings that are inserted are made from drawings which I 
took on the spot; they are done in a slight manner, and therefore are 
more intended to give general ideas, than to enter into any nicety 
of detail. 
For the map from Bushire to Teheran I am indebted to my friend 
Captain James Sutherland, of the Bombay army; and for the 
general one of the countries, through which my route carried me, I 
must here return my thanks to Major Re nnell, who has furnished me 
with this valuable document, and who has kindly assisted me in this, as 
well as on other occasions when I found myself deficient, with his 
advice and information. The map from Teheran to Amasia is the result 
of my own observation, corrected by the same masterly hand. It ter~ 
minates at Amasia , because my journey from that place to Constants 
nople was performed as much by night as it was by day, and prosecuted 
with too great speed to permit me to observe with accuracy. Besides 
which, in Turkey, where the people are much more jealous and watchful 
of travellers than in Persia, I found that I could not make my remarks 
so much at my ease as I wished, although assisted by the disguise of a 
Persian dress. The courses and distances, noted in the journal, are only 
to be regarded as a kind of dead reckoning , subject to correction by the 
application of latitudes in certain places, and of approximated posi- 
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