Les Parsis: By D. Menant ; Translated in Part By Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil
Les Parsis: By D. Menant ; Translated in Part By Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil
Menant Delphine
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203 et seq, ; N. de KlhamkofF (1859), Memoir, pp. 200-204; A. H. Schindler (1879), ^^^ /' Gesell d. Erd. zu Berlin; Curzon (1889), Persia, vol. ii. ch, xxiii. pp. 238-243, London, 1892.) Digiti ized by Google 52 THE PARSIS ancient extent. Yezd is, however, prosperous It contains a population of from seventy to eighty thousand inhabitants, composed of the most diverse elements — ^amongst others 2,000 Jews, still obliged to wear on their cloaks the badge of their disgrace, and some Hindoos called... to this place by their business affairs. There are five reservoirs, abambars, fifty mosques, eight madressaSy and sixty-five public baths ; a post office ensures a regular weekly ^ service with Bander- Abbas and Bushire ; the telegraph puts it in communication with Kirman and Ispahan. Commerce flourishes ; about the middle of this century eighteen hundred manu- factories gave work to nine thousand workmen. Nowadays the number is, however, less. It is here that we find, grouped together, the scattered remnants of the Zoroastrian community.
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