With Star and Crescent: a full and authentic account of a recent journey with a caravan from Bombay to Constantinope, comprising a description of the country, the people, and interesting adventures with the natives

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Preface

The author of the following pages, descriptive of interesting travel, accomplished the journey therein described, in company with an attachee of the French Government, together with escorts of natives selected from place to place, as they moved forward from Bombay, the place from which they started, to Constantinople, the ultimate destination of the caravan.

The description of objects, customs, and peculiar habits of the people, and the relating of amusing and adventurous incidents, are entirely •^ from personal observations and experiences of the

s author, and do not refer in any manner to any

;v preceding publication upon a kindred subject.

The illustrations are from original pencil drawings sketched by the author upon the spot, and correctly picture the present unprogressive state of that Eastern country.

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As the caravan went into camp from time to time, unusual opportunities were afforded the author for excursions of exploration, investigation, and adventure with the rascally Bedouins common to the deserts of Persia and Arabia.

As the rising sun first casts its effulgent rays upon the eastern horizon, leaving it, as day advances, darker and more sombre, so do progress and light^ watchwords of intellectual activity, now cast their direct rays upon the more western hemisphere, leaving in fixed, apparently unalterable attitude the " orient '^ — the " cradle of the

human family,"

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Table Of Contents

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Cordial Beception— Introdaction to Signor P. — A Valuable Acquaintance—Preparation for a Journey Together — Bound for the Persian Golf-— The Steamer " Penang "—Fellow Passengers— Shoals of Fish.