A TOUR TO SHEERAZ, BY THE ROUTE OF KAZROON AND FEEROZABAD; WITH VARIOUS REMARKS ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, LAWS, LANGUAGE, TO WHICH IS ADDED A HISTORY OF PERSIA, FROM THE DEATH OF KUREEM KHAN TO THE SUBVERSION OF THE BY EDWARD SCOTT WARING, ESQ. OF THE BENGAL CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT. BREVIS ESSE LABORO, OBSCURUS, FIO,- LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND, PREFACE. Books of Travels have been received at all times, and in all ages, with avidity; the Author of the present work will consider himself well recompensed if he meet with a small portion of public indulgence. It has been expected of, and it has always been customary for, a traveller to assign the motives for his undertaking. Ill health and curiosity were the reasons which induced me to visit Persia; and if the Public deem the latter to have been well directed, I shall receive an ample compensation for the temporary loss of the most invaluable of all blessings. Few countries have been visited oftener than Persia: relations of this country, however, have often been given by persons who were ignorant of the language of its inhabitants; by others, who have been too intent upon their own concerns to interest themselves about the manners or usages of a remote kingdom; and by some, whose prejudices have not only directed their enquiries, but also commanded their opinions. may How I have executed this work I am not to determine. I be, however, allowed to mention, that I have spared no pains to |