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and bound him, and immediately dispatched a messenger to the King, 
requesting that an officer might be sent to take him into custody. 
By this act, the threatened hostilities of the Turcomans were for the 
moment suspended. They retired from Astrabad, and Mahomed 
Zemaun Khan was carried before the King. When he had reached the 
camp, the King ordered Mahomed Khan, Chief of his camel artillery, 
to put a mock crown upon the rebel’s head, bazuhends or armlets on his 
arms, a sword by his side; to mount him upon an ass with his face to¬ 
wards the tail, and the tail in his hand ; then to parade him through¬ 
out the camp, and to exclaim, “This is he who wanted to be the King!” 
After this was over, and the people had mocked and insulted him, he 
was led before the King, who called for the Looties and ordered them to 
turn him into ridicule, by making him dance and make anticks against 
his will. He then ordered, that whoever chose, might spit in his face. 
After this he received the bastinado on the soles of his feet, which 
was administered by the chiefs of the Cajar Tribe, and some time after 
he had his eyes put out. 
The strong coincidence between these details and the most awfully 
affecting part of our own Scripture History, is a striking illustration of 
the permanence of Eastern manners. 
The King returned to Teheran, without having entirely suppressed the 
spirit of rebellion, which had shown itself among some of the chiefs of 
Khorassan ; and as it was announced early in 1815, that the summer’s 
campaign would again take place in that province, preparations were 
made accordingly. The governors of towns and provinces received 
orders to lay up provisions for the King and his troops, and the kuriilc, 
or the “ warning off,” was made at the different pasturages where it 
was supposed the army might encamp. 
The heats of Teheran become insupportable by the middle of June, 
and the city is then abandoned by almost the whole of its inhabitants ; 
those who are attached to the King and the court (forming perhaps the 
largest portion) follow the camp ; the shopkeepers and merchants go to 
Shemiroun, and the different villages situated at the foot of the neigh¬ 
bouring mountains, and none remain but the very poor people, who 
