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INDEX. 
Parturition, facility of it in the East, 106. 
Pastures, 83, 121. 
Passenza, Cape, 25. 
Passagarda, 68. 
Peasants, of Merdasht, their misery and food, 
76. 84. Trait of perverseness, 271. 366. 
Peer-a-Zun, mountains seen from Istakhar, 85. 
Pehlavi, inscription, 66. 
Persia, its limits, 24. First impressions at land¬ 
ing, 4. Its houses, 74. Misery and magnifi¬ 
cence intermixed, 165. Well adapted for 
wheeled carriages, 205. Parts of its geogra¬ 
phy little known, 256. Its boundaries and that 
of Russia defined, 300. Mountains of, 303. 
Favourable to geographical observations, 303. 
Persians, their feelings upon seeing America, 
10. 11. Compared with the Turks, 23. Their 
curiosity about our women, 39. Their politics, 
42. Anecdote of a Persian family, 52. Mi¬ 
series of the peasantry, 52. Their flattery, 
56. Feelings at the loss of their children, 58. 
Their hot-baths, 59. Hold nakedness in hor¬ 
ror, 59. Surprise at our wigs, 60. Little 
faith to be placed in their descriptions, 73. 
Specimen of their hydraulics, 74. Take spring 
medicines, 82. Are prejudiced in favour of 
their fruit, 92. Fate of the rich, 95. Their 
treatment of infants, 105 to 110. Coincidence 
with Jewish customs, 105. Traits of, 130. Their 
children do not sit before their parents, 131. 
143. Not bigoted about the Koran, 156. Mode 
of defence, 157. Superstition about comets, 
id.; about Goules, 168. Instability of pro¬ 
perty, 170. Revere their King, 173. Instances 
of their fanaticism, 176. Their grief at the 
celebration of Hossein’s death, 178. Instances 
of their penance, 183. 184. Their ignorance 
of Europe, 184. Fear of the Russians, 185. 
Instance of their exaggeration, 185. Cut off 
heads in war, 186. 187- Anecdote, 189. Their 
intemperance, 189. Their complaint at being 
obliged to work, 199. Have no invention, 200. 
Fond of a jingle of words, 200. Mode of hunt¬ 
ing the wild ass, 201. Dexterity on horseback, 
206. Hatred of the Russians, 211. Their ideas 
of courage, 215. Their fearlessness on horse¬ 
back, 218. Easily civilized, 227. Their do¬ 
mestic life, 228. Their vine-dressers, 232. 
238. Superstition, 239. Traits of their cha¬ 
racter, 240. Their ceremonial, 241. Desire 
for peace, 244. A quarrel described, 248. 
Flattery, 249. Feeling towards women, 258. 
Revere the threshold, 254. Superstition about 
the tvaf^, 255. Instance of politeness, 260. 
Fly to the mountains, 261. Their curiosity at 
Hamadan, 263. Punsters, 355.-387. 393. 
Persepolis, ruins of, 23. 68. 69. 72. 74. Exca¬ 
vations made there, 74. Arrow-headed in¬ 
scription, 75. Subterraneous passage, 77. 86. 
Discovery of a tomb, 86. — 93. Visit it again, 
114. Inscription at Hamadan, 267. 
Petrefactions, 284. 285. 
Pigeon-houses, 140. Dung of, 141. White 
pigeons, superstition about them, 151. 
Pine-trees, 362. 
Pirates, Arabian, 27. 28. Their arms, 29. Ad¬ 
venture with, 35. 
Pitkinah, 259. 
Pliny illustrated, 100. 
Point de Galle, 11. 
Polhar, river, 79. 83. 84. 
Polybius, illustrated, 163. 259. 267. 268. 374. 
Popular disturbances at Shiraz, 182. 
Population of Shiraz, 110. 
Portugal, her former relations with Persia, 45. 
Powder-mills, 231. 
Predestinarian, saying of one, 231. 
Princess of Shiraz, her beauty, 61. 81. 
Propaganda, society of, 146. 
Pul Dallauk, 167. 
Punishment of thieves, 96. To robbers, 291. Of 
a rebel, 357. 
Pylce Caspice, 365. 
Q 
Quails, method of catching them, 343. 
Quarrel at Komeesha, 127. At Aslandous, 249. 
Queen at Shiraz, 60. Her dress, 61. 
Quintus Curtius, illustrated, 94.113. 277.278. 
282. 285. 
R 
Rahdars, or toll-gatherers, 69. 70. 90. 
Ramazan, Persian fast, 244. 360. 
Ramgerd, mountains, 84. 
Ratification of the treaty of England and Persia, 
389. 
Regent of Portugal, his handsome reception 
of the Ambassadors, 4. 7. 
Relicks at Etchmiatzin, 325. 
Rennell, Major, 235. 267. 
