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JULY, 1906.] THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL).
prophets and poets of Israel are wont to do in respect of Jahve. And when Asha Aramaiti and Vohumano, and, above all, Atar or fire are called his sons and daughters, let it be remembered that the first three are in fact personified abstract concepts and the fire a spirit, so that it is more symbolisation than mythology, and that it in no manner exceeds what the eighth Proverb expresses about wisdom and what Job i. says about the sons of God. But even in Varuna not much of the mythical is left behind, and he is hardly a less ethical conception of God than Mazda Ahura, omniscient and all-seeing like the latter, severe in chastisement, and a formidable protector of justice and veracity. Those who were familiar with a personified idea of God in Varuna had but to prolong the line a little to arrive at the presentment of Mazda. But at all events this was somewhat modified very early in Iran, in fact as soon as the creed, with its spread over larger area, lost much of its purity and nobleness, represented by the singers of the oldest odes. Nevertheless, Mazda Ahura remained the great God, the only God proper.
(To be continued.)
THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL) IN THE EAST INDIES, PERSIA, AND PALESTINE.
1654-1670.
BY SIR B. C. TEMPLE.
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I STANDINGE at a distance, the Ld my freinde psented me & said, Allas geere ['Alamgir], yt is, may it please yor highnesse Emperror of the world, I haue brought ya heere a Traveller that can Cast Gunns.
The Empr. likt it well, & Questioned me whence I caime. I told him I was a traveller & an Englmman. Before I could speake againe, he sd to his 2d, ye Duan, Am'ar'ra golum se'fect adam' me' is kee pass a mar' ra' ra veis [Hamarah ghulam safed admi, is ke pas hamārā ra'is ?], My slave I thinke has whitemen as we are. In yt tyme ye Ld my frd woh stood by me whisperd, Je voc'cat Couch mut' cau [Yeh waqt kuchh mat kaho], Say nothing more at this tyme.
The Emp deld [delivered] me into ye hands of ye La my freind Scyat Cawne [Sayyid Khan], wth 20 Sarvts to attend on me, Appoyntinge me a larg place & Commanded wtt ever I cald for to be given me, Gold, money, Brass, Copper & sarvis to worke at my appoyntm.
When I had made 8 Moulds & my furnace, the Emperr caime to see them & was much taken wth them. I told him My Moulds would be dry in 15 days; in yt tyme he commanded me every day to Court & gave me 100 Moores [mohars] in gold, About 36s a ps Engl money and had all pleasures in eating, drinking Danceinge, Musique & wtt hart could desire.
When my mould was drie & my furnasse made, weh did q! [contain] 250 Tanns of mettle, Out of weh I did cast Eight whole cannon and 4 Morters, woh did carrie every one a shell of 1601b pounds of poother, The weight of the shell beinge 450 pounds English, ye thickness 9 inches threw. This beinge don of a ffryday morninge, I told ye Emperror ye Guns weere cast, but I wanted a Carpenter to make carrages. 84 ye Emper, to morrow it cannot be don, it beinge theire Sabbath, but next day it shall.
"A mistake here. The Muhammadan Sabbath is kept on Friday.
