Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . these he gave us in profusion at supper that evening, andit was then that I noticed for the first time the fondness of thePersians for melted butter (roghaTi). A new significance wasthus imparted to the Avestan passage which describes howzaremaya raogJina, clarified butter of springtime, is the firstfood which the faithful who have died in Zoroasters creedreceive when they enter into Paradise.^ Before daybreak I was awakened by a messenger whoentered my room armed with gun an
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . these he gave us in profusion at supper that evening, andit was then that I noticed for the first time the fondness of thePersians for melted butter (roghaTi). A new significance wasthus imparted to the Avestan passage which describes howzaremaya raogJina, clarified butter of springtime, is the firstfood which the faithful who have died in Zoroasters creedreceive when they enter into Paradise.^ Before daybreak I was awakened by a messenger whoentered my room armed with gun and pistol. He hadcome from Urumiah and had ridden through the night todeliver to me a cablegram which had reached the city after 1 Yt. 22. 18. 116 BY CARAVAN AND CAVALCADE sunget. The city gates were closed, and the guards, takinghim for a horse-thief, had refused to let him pass until he pre-sented his credentials, when he was allowed to hasten on hisway to overtake my caravan. The cable had become muchgarbled in the course of transmission, but happily the ciphercontained good news from my distant
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