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the want of the comforts of Stambol, and how anxious he was to get 
back to them. The room in which w^e were seated looked upon a 
small basin of water, in which was placed a little ship completely rigged, 
at which the old man was wont to look, as a recollection of his dear 
Bosphorus. Wlien we conversed on politics I found him in almost 
total ignorance of what was then passing in the world. He asked me 
questions about events that had taken place many months before ; and 
as he was generally six months at a time without hearing from his 
Court, all his information was gleaned from the Tatars, who occasion¬ 
ally were sent to the English Ambassador from ConvStantinople. 
The affairs between Turkey and Persia continued for some time after 
to wear an unsettled appearance, although hostilities had ceased on the 
Bagdad frontier, owing to the compromise which the Pasha of that place 
had agreed to make, by paying down a certain sum in ready money as 
a compensation for the expences that Persia had incurred in her inter¬ 
ference for Abdurakhman Pasha. 
We had not long been at Tabriz before our party was joined by the 
Rev. William Canning and the Rev. Henry Martyn. The former was 
attached to our Embassy as chaplain ; the latter, whom we had left at 
Shiraz employed in the translation of the New Testament into the Per¬ 
sian language, having completed that object, was on his way to Con¬ 
stantinople. Both these gentlemen had suffered greatly in health during 
their journey from Shiraz. Mr. Martyn had scarcely had time to recover 
his strength before he departed again. He remained some time with the 
Armenian patriarch and his monks at Etchmiatzin, and his memory is 
highly revered amongst them. He had a relapse of his fever in Turkey, 
and as he travelled with a Tatar, a mode evidently too violent for his 
weak frame, his disorder obliged him to stop at Tocat, where he died. 
The Persians, who were struck with his humility, his patience and re¬ 
signation, called him a merdi kJioddi, a man of God j and indeed every 
action of his life seemed to be bent towards the one object of advancing 
the interest of the Christian religion. When he was living at Shiraz, 
employed in his translation, he neither sought nor shunned the society 
of the natives, many of whom constantly drew him into arguments 
