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Project Gutenberg's Across Coveted Lands, by Arnold Henry Savage Landor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Author: Arnold Henry Savage Landor Release Date: July 22, 2007 [EBook #22117] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ACROSS COVETED LANDS *** Produced by Michael Ciesielski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: His Majesty the Shah of Persia.] ACROSS COVETED LANDS OR A JOURNEY FROM FLUSHING (HOLLAND) TO CALCUTTA, OVERLAND BY A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR _WITH 175 ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS, PLANS AND MAPS_ _BY AUTHOR_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited 1902 _All rights reserved_ Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, LONDON AND BUNGAY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ His Majesty the Shah of Persia _Frontispiece_ The Baku Oil Wells 20 The Amir of Bokhara leaving Baku to return to his Country 26 Persian Wrestling 38 Fourgons on the Russian Road between Resht and Teheran 50 Making a _Kanat_ 74 The Murderer of Nasr-ed-din Shah 90 Persian Cossacks (Teheran) Drilled by Russian Officers 100 The Eftetahie College, supported by Meftah-el-Mulk 102 H. E. Mushir-ed-Doulet, Minister of Foreign Affairs 106 Persian Soldiers--The Band 112 Recruits learning Music 112 The Arrival of a Caravan of Silver at the Imperial Bank of Persia 126 The Imperial Bank of Persia Decorated on the Shah's Birthday 134 A Typical Persian Window. (Mr. Rabino's House, Teheran.) 140 The First Position in Persian Wrestling 158 Palawans, or
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