THE PILLARS OF SCULLS 
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fused to receive, witii appropriate strictures on his uncourteous con¬ 
duct. 
Attempts have been made to fortify Khoi according to rule, upon 
a plan drawn out by one of General Gardanne’s officers. It has cost 
the Prince large sums of money, more from the instability of the work¬ 
manship and materials employed upon it, than from any other cause. 
He now has determined to complete the fortifications, and we found 
some hundreds of workmen employed under the direction of a young 
Persian, by name Mirza Banker, who acquired a superficial knowledge 
of engineering, from both the French and English officers. 
We rode in the evening to see two Kelleh Minar (pillars of sculls), 
which are the memorials of an extraordinary hunt of Shah Ismael, who 
in one day is said to have killed a multitude of wild goats, the heads and 
horns of which were arranged in thick lines around two pillars of brick. 
Some less credulous, affirm that these heads were the produce of the 
sport of one year, which I think most likely j although it is allowed 
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