LEAVES TABREEZ, OCTOBER, 1819. 
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in my service, stretched cold and stiff before me, and his bright 
eye closed. 
October 19th, 1819. — Having bade farewell to all my kind 
friends in the Azerbijan capital, and received from Abbas Mirza 
the royal packet with which his majesty and himself had honoured 
me for my own sovereign, 1 took my final leave of that amiable 
prince. That epithet, when attached to an Asiatic heir ap¬ 
parent, is of much greater moment to the people likely to be 
committed to his care, than can well be guessed by European 
subjects. But I will not dilate further on the character of a 
prince, whose life as a sovereign, should Heaven hereafter grant 
that blessing to Persia, must prove his best panegyric. 
Leaving Tabreez at eight o’clock in the morning, we had a 
fair length of day before us to perform rather a long journey ere 
halting for the night. Our course lay N. 30° W. bringing us to 
Sofianat at two o’clock, and Marande, our proposed resting- 
place, by seven. I do not dwell on the particulars of this part 
of my route now, having fully described its adjacent country in 
the journal of my first arrival in Azerbijan from Georgia. Yet 
some difference in the general style of my entertainment may 
be anticipated; the cutting off my train necessarily maiming my 
consequence in the eyes of caravansary keepers, and all their 
satellites of board or manger; however, his royal highness, at 
parting, furnished me with a little antidote to the higher powers, 
the governors of towns, and the ketkhodas of villages ; his sign 
manual, ordering them to provide me every facility, accommo¬ 
dation, &c. at my command, to the utmost verge of the Persian 
dominions. At Marande we were lodged in the Mehman Kha- 
nah, or house for travellers. The distance of this town from 
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