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importing, that it was on the refractory person’s own peril, to 
linger another moment, after I should command him to fulfil in 
every respect the order of the King; which was, that he should 
attend me with all the services of a mehmandar, from my 
setting forth from Teheran, to my return to that city again. 
And, if I should hereafter find cause to complain of his con¬ 
duct in any one tittle, a signal punishment would be his certain 
award. 
The vavaseur , or rather variety, according to our English ac¬ 
ceptation of the term, finding that my European patience might 
be encroached on too far, and that I had, and would in future, 
put my demands on his services, if demurred, into the hands of 
those accustomed to treat determined disobedience in a very 
summary way, resumed his eloquence, to explain his extraor¬ 
dinary misapprehension of the royal commission ; and, to make 
atonement, became proportionably alert in expediting all my 
commands, whether they might tend to take him southward, 
to Persepolis, or westward, to Jericho. Being now aware of 
the character I had to deal with, I managed him afterwards on 
a principle directly opposite from the Prince of Denmark’s order. 
Had I dealt with this man “ according to mine own honour ,” I 
should have been left in deserts, and encouraged him to dis¬ 
honour his master ; but, as I treated him “ according to his own,” 
I kept him honest, and, as my royal entertainers would have 
wished, myself in as much comfort, as the various fortunes of 
the road, in so wide an empire, could reasonably admit. 
After all preliminaries, and the proper adieus to the delegated 
authorities in Ispahan, I saw my troop well mounted; pre¬ 
pared, “ sword, and sinewy arm,” at the port of egress, for what 
might occur hereafter: and, having given my orders to the 
