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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

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[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