The New York herald., 1870-11-25
Special Diary to Rushire.


Special Diary to Rushire.
JULY Is, 1S7o.-Left Shiraz ut half-past ten A. NJ
for Chcnarah-da distant clght miles. Heat ia de-
grees Fahrenheit The mountains and plain smok. |
ing hot; fever surgIng up my nostrs like steam |
vapor. Two p. NJ arrived at carayanseral crazed !
with fever. 1t kept me on bed OF straw In lousy
cell for two days.
JULY 2o.--Started for KhamiZenioun, tourney OF |
sixteen miles. Desolaie country. Hills after hills
valleys after valleys all forgotten OF God, deserted
by honest man, inhabited only by the mancess lions
OF Persia the laughing hyena, the caraca fox and
jelboa, robber erlant ana prowling BaKrar My
Winchester Is loaded with thirteen cartridges ready
to fire at the first image OF n robber. Heat 10 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Highest altitude during the day
200 feet above the sea.
July 21.-To Myoum Khuial (Betwcen the fIillg
twenty-cght miles. Heat at eleven O'Clock A. NJ.
112 degrees Fahrenheit. Highest altitude reached
1900 feet. From the rocky Vicinity OF Khan-i-zIn-
coin We dropped into the valley OF Dusbt-LArjan.
Remarkable spring OF water; trees OF antique birth
near 1t. Cardinal urgencies OF travel disposed OF
under the shade OF the trees such as hunger ana
thirst. This valley Is the grazing ground Tor the
Ecllant mares Desperate set of people, those Eell-
ants Thence we ascended most ugly slope OF a
mountain, Wild ig, wild cherry and almond trees
thicky clothing it, under which turks the Iona
vellers; but my Winchester would blow him to
fragments. do not fear him. but the Eeiant. The
caravans we see and pass cry "Beware beware ~
Having ascended 10 the summit oil the mountain.
I look down upon q bewilderlng area-an agglome-
rate or ugly mountain yerteb er, with the devil's
own passes between them. The whole land seems
seething In the heat Finally reached Myoum Khu-
tai, after eleven hours travel.
july 22.-Had slight attack OF fever during the
ntobt Woc veaa hia dov utn
10 degrees sun heat in such condition rested tnat
day. This Is the finest carayanserai In South Per-
sia, but the people about are rogucs. Twice
were invaded during the nlyht by sly hands, but we
were watchful ard lost nothing.
Singular scenery all about lit. True bit or Abyssin-
! ian widness The HERALD correspondent has
/ found himself in strange places before but now l
| viii cast my eyes about me and look ont over the
! scene. Ny arms rest on the baitlcments. am
nlty feet above the hill top at the base OF the wall
/ question myself II this Is not as Wild any, not
/ wilder, but yet as iorbidding Heat 116 degrees
twelve O'Clock M. crossed myself, repeated don't
| Know how many dreS--I had no beads. therefore
! could not count them. My ares wouldn't march, as
the Shah says. Weil, said prayer for the dead
| Abbas the Great and thanked heaven there were
/ such places as caravanserals IN Ears. What was 1t?
| Was it the water OF pusDtiAr;an that gave mo
such sleep? Oh, health resorer in the afternoon
| in the caravanscrai .Between the Hins.n All that
water, the BEST the coolest In Persia as cold as q
Nova Ienbla spring infinitely sweeter than Zeul.
zem. sanctiacd by the vicinity or the Caaba though
it be.
JULY 23.-Slid down at dawn yes, actually
| slid down. my baggage, mules. servants ana N.Y.
| self--doWn, down 1000 fcetl The slope OF the
mountain was covered with round two-poundcr
soacs. The first touch OF mules foot on the stones
! ana 1t slid yard; another foot, another yard
| peril OF our lives However, tue mules survived IT,
| and / believe-as feel my limbs aud neck-I be-
| lleve survived 1t. Thank the Lord
| Well, we had reached the bottom OF
the Peera Zun Mountain, ana were voluble with
| seii-congratu alton when an incident occurred.
| NV Winchester was up to my shoulder, my servants
| kemmcrs ana scimetars flashed out. We were
braveiy resolved, assure you. But this incident.
II was q naked man. who came out from behind the
! wild almond bushes and cried out for help In the
name OF Allah. Eat whyY OF course he had been
| robbed OF every shay he had in the world. He was
| going with three mules to Shraz, loaded. Halt way
between Konlaridge ana Myoum Khntal three men,
armed with guns, which were pointed at him. bade
him stop to take OF his kooba lcoat then hisr erkak
| gown or robc Of good stun, then his peerahun
(shlr), then his zeerlama OF linen, then his slip
| they fopged him with switches cut from the wild
almond bushes. And here he was Ia q bruised,
tany; Hs think Of tie good Samaritan 'p May Nay It not not
be turn next God just TN TX OF It, to be robbed
rd,ds q q insD s,ey Of
dog, and perhaps taken and sold No. no,
my dear my pet Winchester, thou shalt sing q
sworn to make another Thermopyla we march on.
confident. but nevertheless on the alert our bruised
unfortunate as well as We.
We pass Comaridge PLAIN safely, reach the Dokfi-
ter pass, and from It's summit we look down Zig
gag road which leads into the Valley of Kanzeroon
1900 leet below My0um Khutal pass Is nothing TO
1t And as for widness and bcakness combined II
put Engedi desolation with the ruggedness OF the
Sierra Nevada may make something OF COM
pare. Str, Strange, Is it not The peera zun
daughter" Having finished safely with the "Old
Woman" we must now descend the daughter"
sees the muzzie Of an Eeliants gun behind every
boulder; the echo OF our horses feet among the
around us recalls to his mind the terrible logging
and wolu loss which has occurred to him; his own
fears have become his worst enemies Poor fellow
What could they have done to him. except draw a !
blade across his throat After an hour we cried
quits with the aniractuous "Danghter," and
the ruins and sculptures Of shapour, or Sapor, Con-
| queror OF the Roman Valerian,
Sapor was the son of Artarxexes and second Of
the valiant ana wise Slssande Second Sapor was
crowned as heir even before his birth The queen
state and the diaden OF Persia was placed over the
womb, ana thus Sapon was crowned (see Glib
295 A. D.; that built the city OF shapour'
or Sapor. The ruins lare those OF his fire
umph over yalerlan and his Romans near Edessa
The ruins consist OF remnant OF Sapor's castle on
the Acropols, overlooking beautiful but connned
PLAN; sculptures representing Valerian kneeling
before Sapor Odenathus, OF Palmyra cons0rt OF
Queen Zenobla sending camels bearing presents to
him; some Pahani inscriptions, and at the entrance
OF large cavern ts the PROSTATE statue Of Sapor,
over fifteen feet in length. The sculptures sim
ar to those at Naksh i-Rustann and Maksh-i Rejeb
The castle site was well chosen, on the brink OF
lofty and broad chasm, through which murmurs q
clear stream called after the victorious monarch.
Ten niles of Is KanzcrU0n, surrounded by groves
OF palms-a large town OF 5000 inhabitants, but
rapidly thinning, because OF famine which is ex-
tending oyer all Persia. The people are leaving
this place by scores and vet finer plain, rather
valley, Is not to be found In Southern Fars
July A-TO Khan-i-faknta, eight faasakhs, or
about fblrty miles. We are descending rapidly
towards the sea, and are already 1000 feet below
Shiraz We nave 1900 feet again to descend to-day
by pass which could be defended by 100 resolute