Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Shokinu a Donkey. The ZoroAstkian Dakhmam ai Uki miai; I jian LONG MARCHES 403 in the latter part of the thirteenth century. The Italian friarOdoric of Pordenone rode over it from Kashan to Yezd earlyin the fourteenth century (about 1325),2 and in the latter partof the fifteenth century (1474) Josafa Barbaro, the Venetianenvoy to the court of Usun Cassan, describes Kashan andKum, two of the most important towns on the line.^ The second days march, as my diary shows, was a ploddingride o
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . Shokinu a Donkey. The ZoroAstkian Dakhmam ai Uki miai; I jian LONG MARCHES 403 in the latter part of the thirteenth century. The Italian friarOdoric of Pordenone rode over it from Kashan to Yezd earlyin the fourteenth century (about 1325),2 and in the latter partof the fifteenth century (1474) Josafa Barbaro, the Venetianenvoy to the court of Usun Cassan, describes Kashan andKum, two of the most important towns on the line.^ The second days march, as my diary shows, was a ploddingride of fourteen hours, with two brief breaks before the goal,fifty-six miles distant, was reached. A mid-day halt on thisjourney was made for an hour at Akdah, or Agdah, which isdescribed by Yakut as a town on the borders of the desert ofYezd.* Somewhere in the hills in this vicinity there is said tobe a shrine sacred to the memory of Banu-i Fars, or KhatunBanu, the mother, or more probably the daughter, of the lastSasanian monarch Yazdagard, with whose death the line ofZoroastrian rulers in Persia came to an end.^ In this sa
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