tiny, the same fate as that which their hands had inflicted upon
the Bab. To insure that none of them had survived, they were riddled with
a second volley, after which their bodies, pierced with spears and lances,
were exposed to the gaze of the people of Tabriz. The prime instigator of
the Bab's death, the implacable Amir-Nizam, together with his brother, his
chief accomplice, met their death within two years of that savage act.

On the evening of the very day of the Bab's execution, which fell on the
ninth of July 1850 (28th of _Sh_a'ban 1266 A.H.), during the thirty-first
year of His age and the seventh of His ministry, the mangled bodies were
transferred from the courtyard of the barracks to the edge of the moat
outside the gate of the city. Four companies, each consisting of ten
sentinels, were ordered to keep watch in turn over them. On the following
morning the Russian Consul in Tabriz visited the spot, and ordered the
artist who had accompanied him to make a drawing of the remains as they
lay beside the moat. In the middle of the following night a follower of
the Bab, Haji Sulayman _Kh_an, succeeded, through the instrumentality of a
certain Haji Allah-Yar, in removing the bodies to the silk factory owned
by one of the believers of Milan, and laid them, the next day, in a
specially made wooden casket, which he later transferred to a place of
safety. Meanwhile the mullas were boastfully proclaiming from the pulpits
that, whereas the holy body of the Immaculate Imam would be preserved from
beasts of prey and from all creeping things, this man's body had been
devoured by wild animals. No sooner had the news of the transfer of the
remains of the Bab and of His fellow-sufferer been communicated to
Baha'u'llah than He ordered that same Sulayman _Kh_an to bring them to
Tihran, where they were taken to the Imam-Zadih-Hasan, from whence they
were removed to different places, until the time when, in pursuance of
'Abdu'l-Baha's instructions, they were transferred to the Holy Land, and
were permanently and ceremoniously laid to rest by Him in a specially
erected mausoleum on the slopes of Mt. Carmel.

Thus ended a life which posterity will recognize as standing at the
confluence of two universal prophetic cycles, the Adamic Cycle stretching
back as far as the first dawnings of the world's recorded religious
history and the Baha'i Cycle destined to propel itself across the unborn
reaches of time for a period of no less than fi