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This place as well as Kazioun and Deloonezer are under the go¬ 
vernment of the same Arabian family that rules Morghaub. 
On reaching Abadeh, we returned .again to the road which I 
have described in my first journal^, and therefore further geograph¬ 
ical details are unnecessary : but I must not omit to mention a saying 
of our Mehmandar, which is truly characteristic of the Persian and of 
the government of his country. When we were all lamenting the 
great want of population, and the ruined state of Abadeh, whose re¬ 
mains proclaimed it to have been once of great extent, he said, “ You 
say very true. If the king were to know the state of this part of the 
country, he would come here and put every rascal to the sword.” 
At Shoolgistoun, we were met by a Turkish Tatar, with de¬ 
spatches from Constantinople, and never was a messenger more wel¬ 
come, as he brought us news long expected from our country and 
families. We perceived his delight at meeting us, by the smile that 
broke out upon his solemn face, which by the dismal account he gave 
of his treatment in Persia, had most likely never been cheated out of its 
gravity. When we asked him how he liked the Persians, he took hold 
of the collar of his cloak, and shaking it, exclaimed, “ God give them 
“ misfortunes ! Liars, thieves, rogues ! See I have lost the head of my 
“ pipe; they have stolen my pistols. Heaven be praised that I have seen 
“ you at last.” 
The shaking of his coat (a very common act in Turkey), is no doubt 
an act of the same kind and import as that of St. Paul, who, when 
the Jews opposed themselves and blasphemed, shook his raiment. 
Acts, xviii. 6. An additional mark of reprobation is given in the other 
instances in which St. Paul and Barnabas shook off the dust of theiv feet 
against the Jews. This had been ordered by Christ himself. Matt. x. 14. 
The day after we reached Maxhoud Beggy, we buried one of our 
artillery men, who had fallen a victim to the climate. We dug his 
grave at about 400 yards from our camp, and concealed its situation as 
much as possible from the knowledge of the Persians, fearing that cu- 
* Journey, p. 151. 
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