ILLUSTRATION OF HERODOTUS. 
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On the day of our arrival at Tekmehdash we met a Persian chappar,, 
or courier, who was travelling in the greatest haste to the King from 
Erivan, with intelligence that the revolt of the Georgians against the 
Russians was daily increasing. He wore a long linen bandage that was 
tightly wound about him in many folds, which the Persians say is of 
great support to the body. This will perhaps explain what Herodotus 
means by czvfy, which Larcher has rendered by “ bon marcheur.” 
If it be intended to denote a man on foot, the many bandages with 
which the Persian cossids, or foot messengers, bind themselves, will also 
afford a good illustration. They are generally so tightly zoned that 
they can scarcely stoop, and they also bandage their legs, and tighten 
their trowsers, to be less encumbered in walking, f 
Before we reached our encampment at Ojan, we were surprised by 
the appearance of a coach and six making its way over a rugged 
mountain, which the Prince Royal, as a mark of attention, had sent for 
the Ambassador’s convenience. It was dragged by six horses of the 
artillery, driven by Persian artillery-men, and manoeuvred as a gun. 
It had been given by the Empress Catherine to the Armenian patriarch, 
who had presented it to the Prince; and although it was still in good 
repair, yet the antiquity of its form, its history, its travels, the very spot 
upon which it stood, and particularly the mode by which it had been 
brought hither, all combined to render it one of the most curious objects 
that we had seen since we had been-in Persia. Another surprise that 
awaited us was the sight of a troop of Persian horse-artillery, dressed 
like Europeans, with shaven chins, with English arms and accoutre¬ 
ments, booted and spurred, riding with long stirrups, who, headed by an 
English officer, had come to salute the Ambassador as he alighted at his 
tent door. 
Ojan is now a chemen, or pasturage, entirely appropriated to the use 
of the Prince. A city of that name was situated upon it, which the 
Persians say was of considerable extent; but its only remains are a 
* Clio, 72 . f See the story of the Sliatir, ch. 8. p. 137- 
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