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: The Meidan uf IsfahanThe Royal Mosque and the Porch of the Palace

Text Appearing After Image: pAVlLJtiX Il- -AllKKuKs JULFA, THE ARMENIAN SUBURB 271 become almost as dark as a Persians from weeks of exposureunder the tropical sun of Southern Iran. These English cousinsreceived me hospitably at the Mission, and we soon felt like oldfriends. I had an opportunity to learn something about theirevangelical labors and also about the philanthropic work inmedical and surgical lines. The sick and suffering come some-times from a distance of several hundred miles for treatmentand relief; some, alas, come suffering from the effects of bar-barous mutilations, inflicted as punishments, an instance ofwhich I saw during my short stay in Isfahan. I had almost forgotten the rumor I had heard on the roadsome days before, to the effect that the mail had been robbed.On reaching Isfahan, I was told that the presumable culpritshad been captured, but I thought nojihing more about the mat-ter. Next morning, as my host and I were riding into town,we met a small company of excited people following a ma

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