CHAP. XI. 
TEHERAN. 
VISIT FROM THE SECOND MINISTER-THE COURT POET—FIRST 
CONFERENCE-CEREMONIAL OF THE PUBLIC INTRODUCTION- 
PRESENTS TO THE KING BROUGHT BY THE ENVOY-ORDER OF 
THE PROCESSION-PRESENTATION-THE KING OF PERSIA— 
PEACOCK THRONE-THE COURT-THE PALACE-THE PRIME 
MINISTER ; HIS LEVEE-PERSIAN TRAVELLER-PRESENT TO 
THE ENVOY-CEREMONIES OF THE MOHARREM. 
It had been decided on the day of our arrival, that the first visit 
was to be paid by the owner of the house in which we lodged, Hajee 
Mahomed Hossein Khan, Ameen-ed-Doulah, or Lord Treasurer: 
but on the next day the Minister seemed to make some hesitation in 
according the compliment, and said that he rather expected it from 
the Envoy. Sir Harford Jones, however, immediately obviated the 
difficulty by representing that even among the most uncivilized nations 
the host pays the first attentions to his guest. When this explanation 
was satisfactorily received the Minister came, and with him the King's 
Chief Poet, and some other officers of state. 
We went through the common routine of compliments and presenta- 
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