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PERSIAN DEPUTATIONS. 
confidential officer of the Governor of Ispahan, by a hakeem or Doctor, 
one of the learned of the city, and by several other men of respectability. 
These deputations are called Peesh waz, openers of the way, and are 
one of the principal modes among the Persians of doing honour to 
their guests. The more distinguished the persons sent, and the greater 
the distance to which they go, so much more considerable is the 
honour. 
