... Afghans. Herat was then independent both of Persia and of the riders of Cabot, but it was coveted by Mahomed Mina, the Persian Shah. It was a curic.ras accident that then saved Herat from absorption into the Pers:an monarchy. A young English officer chanced ...

... covered with canvass, as though the tent of the bian tale had been presented to the Giaour by the guardian genii of the Persian Shahs, on purpose that the hated sect which reveres not Ali might be destroyed. When the company arrives at night at its camping ...