Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . his Turkish pass-port, mentioned Yakoubs cousin, theson of Akbar Khan, who was in Con-stantinople in i860. The prince thenspoke very graciously to him, and in-vited him to repeat his visit as often ashe could. Two days before he left Herat ourtraveller made an excursion to the vil-lage of Gazerghiah, situated on an emi-nence a league
Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ..etc., etc . his Turkish pass-port, mentioned Yakoubs cousin, theson of Akbar Khan, who was in Con-stantinople in i860. The prince thenspoke very graciously to him, and in-vited him to repeat his visit as often ashe could. Two days before he left Herat ourtraveller made an excursion to the vil-lage of Gazerghiah, situated on an emi-nence a league from the city, and con-taining many memorials of antiquity,dating from the time of Shah RookhMirza, a son of Timour. Near the vil-lage are the ruins of Mosalla, whichwere also visited. The remains of themosque and sepulchre of Sultan HooseinMirza, erected 891, displayed a largeamount of elaborate carving, many ofthe stones being covered with inscrip-tions from the Koran. On the 15th of November, 1863, Vam-bery quitted Herat with the great car-avan bound for Meshed, and consistingof 2,000 persons, about half of whom 308 TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN ASIA. were Hezare pilgrims from Cabul, anda large proportion of the remainderAfghan merchants from that city and. A PERSIAN OFFICIAL. from Candahar. He obtained permis-sion to ride upon a lightly-loaded camelby representing that he should be ableto pay when the caravan reached Me-shed ; but by this statement he raiseddoubts of the genuineness of the char- acter which he had assumed, so far withsuccess. The dubious light in which I stood,afforded, he says, a fund of interest-ing surmises to those by whom I wassurrounded; for whilst some of themtook me for a genuine Turk, otherswere disposed to think me an English-man ; the different parties even quar-relled on the subject, and it was verydroll to observe how the latter began totriumph over the former when it wasobserved that, in proportion as we drewnear to Meshed, the bent posture ofhum
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