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CORDIAL RECEPTION AT SHIRAZ. 
as arising from the very native country, Persia Proper, of the 
founder of the empire, who first bade the temple of Jerusalem 
be rebuilt, who returned her sons from captivity, and who was 
called by name to the divine commission. 
As we descended the mountain, the bold and steep fore¬ 
ground through which we approached the city, increased the 
picturesque of its situation; and guiding our horses carefully 
down the narrow and romantic path, we soon found ourselves on 
the broad road of the low ground, which leads direct to the 
great northern gate. The son of the late Jaffier Ali Khan came 
out to meet me: he hailed me, more like an old friend than a 
frangeh stranger; and received myself and people into his house 
with every cordial hospitality our situation needed. My fever 
had gained an alarming height; and one of my European servants, 
a Russian, was in an unmanageable state, having become delirious. 
Repose seemed the first point, to give some check, if possible, 
to the advance of our disorder; and when too ill almost to 
thank our kind host, I found cool apartments prepared, and 
every comfort he could command, even to a physician, if I 
would have trusted myself and faithful follower, to Asiatic me¬ 
dical skill. From general observation, and a little particular 
instruction on the subject before I left Europe, I had gained 
some knowledge of the disorders incidental to this climate, and 
the safest mode of treating them ; hence, I took myself and ser¬ 
vant into my own hands, and did not spare our travelling phar¬ 
macopeia. The nummud on which I lay, spread in a shaded 
corner of my room ; with the air breathing in at the open win¬ 
dow, and the sweet refreshment of rose-water sprinkled over 
my clothes, while the flowers themselves scattered on the floor, 
or gathered in pots near me, exhaled a fuller fragrancethese 
