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Title: A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan
Author: Harry De Windt
Release Date: February 7, 2004 [EBook #10974]
Language: English
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[Illustration: IN THE DESERT SUNRISE]
A RIDE TO INDIA
ACROSS PERSIA AND BALUCHISTAN.
BY
HARRY DE WINDT, F.R.G.S.,
AUTHOR OF "FROM PEKIN TO CALAIS BY LAND," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
HERBERT WALKER _FROM SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR_.
1891.
TO
AUDLEY LOVELL, ESQUIRE,
COLDSTREAM GUARDS,
THIS VOLUME
IS
DEDICATED.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. TIFLIS--BAKU
II. THE CASPIAN--ASTARA--RESHT
III. RESHT--PATCHINAR
IV. PATCHINAR--TEHERAN
V. TEHERAN
VI. TEHERAN--ISPAHAN
VII. ISPAHAN--SHIRAZ
VIII. SHIRAZ--BUSHIRE
IX. BALUCHISTAN--BEILA
X. BALUCHISTAN--GWARJAK
XI. KELAT--QUETTA--BOMBAY
APPENDIX
MAP
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
* * * * *
IN THE DESERT SUNRISE
TIFLIS
A DIRTY NIGHT IN THE CASPIAN
ASTARA, RUSSO-PERSIAN FRONTIER
CROSSING THE KHARZAN
TEHERAN
PERSIAN DANCING-GIRL
POST-HOUSE AT KUSHKU BAIRA
A CORPSE CARAVAN
A DAY IN THE SNOW
A FAMILY PARTY
YEZDI-GHAZT
THE CARAVANSERAI, MEYUN KOTAL
SONMIANI
OUR CAMP AT OUTHAL
MALAK
A "ZIGRI" AT GWARJAK
NOMAD BALUCH TENT
JEBRI
KELAT
PALACE OF H.H. THE KHAN KELAT
THE KHAN OF KELAT
A RIDE TO INDIA.
CHAPTER I.
TIFLIS--BAKU.
"Ceci non!"
A spacious apartment, its polished _parquet_ strewn with white
bearskins and the thickest and softest of Persian rugs; its panelled
walls hung with Oriental tapestries, costly daggers, pistols, and
shields of barbaric, but beautiful, workmanship, glistening with gold
and silver. Every detail of the room denotes the artistic taste of the
owner. Inlaid tables and Japanese cabinets are littered with priceless
porcelain and _cloisonne_, old silver, and diamond-set miniatures; the
low divans ar
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