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abandoned, and fallen to utter decay, proclaimed there had once 
been an industrious colony on that spot. Four miles further, 
brought us to Chalasea, where we found a. good and quiet cara¬ 
vansary, and the thermometer, at mid-day, standing at 86° 
Fahrenheit. 
September 2d. — Soon after one o’clock this morning, we 
were again mounted, and, crossing the plain north 23° west, for 
rather more than three farsangs, reached a pass called Hazar- 
mauny. The road continued on a level, between low hills parting 
into narrow rocky glens which ran up into the mountain valleys, 
amongst whose eagle regions the Bactiari tribes of this district 
roam at large, in unapproachable security. The escort which 
were to be my guardians past the mouths of these suspicious 
defiles, consisted of fifteen musqueteers, of the same race with 
the mountain hordes. Some of them being of less ferocious 
dispositions than their wilder brethren, and having no objection to 
the acquirement of gain, when it can be done in peace with the 
institutions of the empire, engage themselves to government for 
a certain hire, to act as a kind of military police, and protect 
travellers from the depredations of the lawless bands. Indeed, 
it does not require the policy of a court, to create, or maintain a 
constant jealousy between the different tribes in this country, 
whether of a radically different origin, or of the same patriarchal 
stock; private feuds, and contentions about tracts of pasturage, 
or any other simple matter, of consequence to the habits of these 
independent people, being sufficient at any time to arm the 
mountain hordes against each other: and so, probably, for 
ever will prevent them from uniting in any one common interest 
that might be dangerous to the royal government of the country. 
For about a farsang of the Pass of Hazarmauny, our escort 
