Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 229
these receptacles, with an eye, however,to equal balance. When both are firmly lashed, the sturdychdrvdddr, or caravan-leader, skilfully lifts the first and after-ward the second on his back and staggers beneath the burdendown the unequal mud steps or lowers it from the roof to thecourt below, and… … L<i«i;i;iN(j Lur.i.AOK Fitu.M theHouSE-Toi AT Dawn and properly adjusted. Thencomes the tying. A Persiancan give points to a jack tarin tlie matter of knotting arope ; l>ut despite all theskill tlie load sometimes doessli[i, and it is well to addor subtract a tip at the end(if tlie day…
Zoroastrianism
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