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 83
as. At Julfa an incident occurred in connection with the Rus-sian export customs for which I was not prepared. The cus-toms ofiicers when examining my baggage kept asking only one 1 Ptolemy, Qeog. 5. 13 (941). s Ibn Haukal, p. 165 ; Yakut, tr. 2 See Wilson, Persian Life, p. 47 ; Barbier de Meynard,… … CROSSING THE ARAS 23 question, but I did not understand Russian, nor did theyknow either French, German, or English. The inspectioncame to a standstill, therefore, until old Rustom, who had notpreviously been allowed to enter the customs lines, was sum-moned. In answer to the inspectors query he…
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