... Herat and the most vulnerable quarter of our Indian posses- siona. By a secret treaty concluded between the Czar and the Persian Shah some two years ago, or concurrently with the rupture of the Treaty of Paris concerning the Black Sea, Persia has ceded ...

... of Persian rulers who has ever journeyed se far westward from the storied • fields of the gorgeous East.. He alone of Persian Shahs has forsaken the Continent on which he was born, and wended his way to the land 1 of the Frank and of the Infidel, where ...