Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: of twelve hours a day in the saddle.The first night was spent at the small hamlet of Nasarabad in amud hovel whose roof was adorned by the skull of a horse, whichserved apparently as a talisman to induce sleep, for I rested well.Toward evening on the second day we halted at Bab-i Ro-shani, Gateway of Light, which looked its name as we enteredthe village at sunset, flooded with golden light from the clos-ing portals of day. The third halt was at Kultapah, where Ipassed an uncomfortable night, but was ready at daybreak foran early start toward Hamadan. Of the many hard stages that made up the journey of onehundred and fifty miles from Urumiah, over high, snow-coveredmountains, this last was one of the most difficult, for, althoughApril had advanced a week, the drifts in the passes were particu-larly deep, and the streams in the plains at the foot of the hillsswollen and extremely hard to ford. My men and horseshad stoodthe strain for twelve days well, but I had trouble with a guide, 144

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