to matters of general presentation. To my younger pupil, Mr. George C. O. Haas, A.M., Fellow in Indo-Iranian, I am especially grateful for help from the beginning. Hardly a day has passed since the first chapter was written without his giving me some aid, either by going through the entire manuscript with an eye to matters of detail, or by correcting with me every page of proof as it came from the compositor, or by preparing the Index, the value of which the reader will easily recognize. There are many other friends whose kindness I recall, but if their names be missing in print, it is not because they are forgotten, but because they are 'registered where every day I turn the leaf to read them,' including among this number the publishers, whose generous attitude toward the subject has enabled me to present the work in a way that I hope may find favor with the reader, general and special, for whom the book is written. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON. V. THROUGH THE SNOW FROM THE ARAS TO TABRIZ VI. TABRIZ, THE RESIDENCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE. XIII. THE ROCK INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERSIAN KINGS . 175 245 262 TEHERAN, THE MODERN CAPITAL OF PERSIA . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS KING DARIUS OFFERS SACRIFICE UNTO ORMAZD From a painting by Jay Hambidge. Frontispiece OLD FORTIFICATIONS AT ELizabetpol, THE ANCIENT GANJAH THE OLD CITADEL OF TIFLIS From a print. From a print. PAGE 5 5 GENERAL VIEW OF TIFLIS YEZIDIS, OR SO-CALLED DEVIL-WORSHIPPERS, IN TIFLIS. From a photograph. TYPES OF Yezidis, or Devil-WORSHIPPERS, AT TIFLIS RUSTOM, MY GEORGIAN GUIDE TO THE FRONTIER From a photograph by the author. 10 10 ECHMIADZIN IN THE SNOW. From a photograph by the author. BAZAAR OF ERIVAN From a print. A CARAVAN IN THE SNOW From a photograph by the author. THE DIEULAFOY FRIEZE OF ARCHERS FROM SUSA. From Perrot and Chipiez, Histoire de l'Art, 5. 868. DARIUS III DEFEATED BY ALEXANDER IN THE BATTLE OF ISSUS . YAZDAGARD III SLAIN IN A MILL AT MERV From the Columbia University Manuscript of the Shah Namah. THE PORTAL OF XERXES AT PERSEPOLIS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS MUZAFFAR Ad-Din, SHAH OF PERSIA . THE PERSIAN INN AT JULFA, WITH THE CUSTOM HOUSE ON THE From a photograph by the author. A PART OF THE ROAD' BETWEEN JULFA AND MARAND MOUNTAIN VILLAGE BURIED IN SNOW BETWEEN MARAND AND From a photograph by the author. SOFIAN From a photograph by the author. A RUINED CARAVANSARAI ON THE WAY. PAGE 21 . 21 INTERIOR OF BAZAAR AT TABRIZ 44 From Weeks, From the Black Sea, p. 51. A COURTYARD ADJOINING THE BAZAAR, TABRIZ 46 |