Narrative of a Journey Into Persia in the Suite of the Imperial Russian Embassy
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painted with considerable taste, and the divisions outside are marked by galleries of variegated colours. This place already af- fords a delightful residence in summer; and, as the cultivation undoubtedly shows European skill, nothing is wanting to render it, in a few years, a heavenly retreat. Our band performed, and the Persians drank chocolate and liqueurs : they ate with great appetite the ices, of which they do not well understand the preparation. The dancers of yesterday again presented t...hemselves, and begged permission to dance to the Rus- sian music, with which they were greatly pleased. * The wine, at dinner, was good, and the Persians quaffed it off, as well as the liqueurs, in immense quantities. Indeed * Some years ago the general commanding an Aus- trian corps, stationed on the Ottoman frontier, was in- vited to dinner by the governor of the adjoining Turkish province. Music formed part of the entertainment; that is to say, all the drums, tambourines, trumpets, fifes, cymbals, and other clangorous instruments which had been scraped together, performed a concert similar to that described by the author.
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