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352   OVERLAND TO INDIA

opinion as to his route, ii. 68, 69, 75 ; Kuh-benan described by, ii. 70 ; author's conclusions as to route of, ii. 71-77 ; distances of stages and rate of travel of, ii. 71 ; value of his account of the desert, ii. 77

Markara, i. 87

Marriage custom, Kurdish, i. 67

Martin, Dr., Swedish Embassy, Constantinople, i. 3

Massis (Mount Ararat), i. 77

Matarjik, caravan-stage at, i. 31

Matting, reed, manufacture of, ii. 265 Mazar, votive pile of stones and rags, i. 85 Mazut, locomotive fuel from petroleum, i.

97

Medicine - chest presented by Burroughs & Wellcome, i. 298

Mehabad, breeding of camels and sheep at,

1. 264

Mehdi Khan, Governor of Senjan, i. 147

Mehemed Reshad, Vali of Trebizond, i. 27

Meigon, ii. 135

Mekran, great basin of, ii. 177

Meksila, i. 33

Melons, Sahara, bitter taste of, i. 308

Mengeser, i. 70

Mensal, or posting-station, i. 116

Menu, a Persian, i. 119-12o

Mergemir-dagh, i. 66

Merui, bungalow of, ii. 332

Meshed, caravan traffic between Yezd and,

2. 23

Meshedi Abbas, i. 164 ; pilgrimages of, ii.

Io0

Meshid-i-Juma, principal mosque of Tebbes,

ii. 40

Meshid-i•Shah, i. 153

Meshki - cha, friendly greeting at, from

Major Benn in Nushki, ii. 327

Mesre-i-demdahaneh, i. 370

Mezre-i-neru, i. 410

Mianeh, i. 139 ; convergence of rivers at,

i. 140

Mianeh-bagh, i. 139

Microbes, plague, ii. 286

Miles, Captain S. B., journey of, from

Gwadar, ii. 195, 198

Mil-i-divun, stream, i. 404, 407

Mil-i-Nadir, or " Nadir's mark," 259

Mill, an underground, i. 314

Millstones, Persian method of transporting,

i. 113

Mirage effects in the desert, i. 257, 289

Miryaman, valley, i. 33

Mirza, meaning of title, i. 164

Mirza Abdul Razul, i. 164

Mirza Riza Khan, i. 3, 129

Missiriyan, i. 69

Mist, vagaries of the, i. 206 ; persistency

of, i. 218, 224, 229

Mobarekiye, i. 190

Modesty, female, varying ideas of, ii. 129

Mohamedabad, ii. 63

Mohammedans, hatred between Armenians

and, i. 45, 58, 76, 99

Moharrem, Mohammedan festival of, ii. 41,

47, 51 ; unlucky to start on journey

during beginning of, ii. 48 ; a period of

idleness, ii. 62

Mollah Isuf, i. 120

Mollahs, court of the, at Tebbes, ii. 48

Mööke, i. 34

Möörchi, i. 31

Morier, J., quoted, ii. 170

Mornard, M., chief of customs, Tabriz, i.

123, 131

Moshajeri district, i. 288, 290

Mosques, open-air, ii. 328

Mountains, disintegration of, i. 226

Mud, desert, exhausting marches in, i.

392 , stream of, flowing into the Kevir,

1. 405 ; camels' misadventures in, ii. 2, 13 Mud-flats, i. 295

Mudir, or village headman, i. 40 Muessinabad, ii. 8o

Mulkabad, spring, camp at, i. 226 ; varieties of rocks at, i. 227 ; names of hills at, i.

254

Murad-khan-ogli, i. 4o

Murad-su (eastern Euphrates), i. 69, 71, 72 Musical instruments, Persian, i. 119

Muzaffar-ed-din Shah, visit to, i. 159 ; letter from King Oskar presented to, i. 159 ; flattering letter received from, i. I 6o

Nadir Shah, ii. 1o6

Naibend, arrival at, ii. III ; Baluchi raids on, ii. 112 ; remarkable view from fort,

2. 113 ; striking situation of, ii. 113 ; types of its inhabitants, ii. 114 ; routes and distances from, 115 ; departure from, ii. I18

Nain range, direction of, i. 271

Nakichevan, discomforts of railway journey to, i. 93-96 ; arrival at, i. 97 ; visit to commandant of town, i. 98 ; a Swedish Bible in, i. 99 ; blood-feuds between Armenians and Tatars at, i. 99-102 ; rioting in district around, i. ioi ; friction between Colonel Enckel and General Ali Khanoff, i. 104 ; visits and photographs in, i. 106 ; the grave of Noah at, io6 ; trade of, i. 107

Nasr-ed-din, Shah of Persia, article on the Hauz-i-Sultan by, ii. 169

Nasretabad, capital of Seistan, author welcomed by Captain Macpherson on arrival at, ii. 274 ; luxuries of civilization in, ii. 275 ; outbreak of plague at, ii. 279 ; fanatical attack on English con-