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Text Appearing Before Image: eld a vision of heaven and conversedwith Haurvatat, the guardian angel that presides over waters.^To me the sight of the mountain and the lake was a joyfulone, because I felt as if I had met friends whom I had longedto see; this made the journey for the remainder of the dayseem shorter. It was between eight and nine in the evening when I finallyreached Tabriz and found a welcome at the mission house.I became a Fire-Worshipper in earnest, as my hosts laugh-ingly said, when I greeted the blazing logs whose cheery flamebrought back the blood to my face, which had been crackedin deep gashes by the cold. I had been for two full days onthe road through the snow, having taken all that time toaccomplish a journey of eighty-five miles. It was a pleasantprospect now to be able to look forward to a rest for severaldays, and that in one of the largest of the cities of Persia. See the suggestions in my Zoro- identification may be suggested, cf.aster, pp. 48, 100, 207, although other p. 141, below.

Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTER VI TABRIZ, THE RESIDENCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE In his retreat to Tauris or Casbeen. — Milton, Paradise Lost, 10. 435. Tabriz, the residence of the heir apparent to the Persianthrone, and the commercial centre of Azarbaijan, is a citywhose age and birthplace are not known, but it may count athousand years as but a fraction of its life. The Persian tra-dition which ascribes its founding to Zobeidah, the wife ofHarun al-Rashid (better known as the Caliph Haroun Alra-schid of the Arabian Nights, a.d. 800), sets its date too late, asin the case of Kashan and other cities which are said to havebeen built by this heroine. It is true that a fountain at Tabrizis called after her name, but the city can be shown to haveexisted under the Sasanians, four centuries before her time.^ Tabriz has been identified with the ancient Gaza, Ganzaca,by some scholars, but this identification is not accurate,^ nor arewe positive that it was formerly called Shahistan, Kings-town,by the Persians and had

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