...The women of pure Tartar blood are proud of it, and illdisposed to share their lands with a stranger, so that, for the sake of peace, a man will content...believe to be true : the relater was a young man of a respectable family, who lived at Meshed, and I give the story in his words : " When Ameer Hyder died,...

...The women of pure Tartar blood are proud of it, and illdisposed to share their lands with a stranger, so that, for the sake of peace, a man will content...markets. The following anecdote, though told a la Persan, I believe to be true : the relater was a young man of a respectable family, who lived at Meshed,...

...two of their own race. The condition of these poor captives must be very wretched, who, after being torn from their homes and taken under every indignity and suffering through the desert, are sold in the Oosbeg markets. The following anecdote was related to me by a young man of a respectable...

...daughters of the devil — women .'" " The condition of these poor captives," continues Conolly, '' must be very wretched, torn from their homes, and...every indignity and suffering through the desert." Respect for the fair sex in Persia has in a great measure vanished ; the beauty and virtue of women...

...thin-skinned daughters of the devil — women ?" " The condition of these poor captives," continues Conolly, " must be very wretched, torn from their homes, and...every indignity and suffering through the desert." Respect for the fair sex in Persia has in a great measure vanished ; the beauty and virtue of women...

...thin-skinned daughters of the devil — women ?" " The condition of those poor captives," continues Conolly, " must be very wretched, torn from their homes, and...every indignity and suffering through the desert." Respect for the fair sex in Persia has in a great measure vanished ; the beauty and virtue of women...