Fifteen Months Pilgrimage Through Untrodden Tracts Of Khusistan And Persia

Author : Joachim Hayward Stocqueler
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230422879
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Fifteen Months' Pilgrimage Through Untrodden Tracts of Khuzistan and Persia written by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ... their spiritual necessities there is an enormous proportion of bishops and priests. There are likewise a monastery and a nunnery here, both of which are very well supported. I was permitted to visit the nunnery, and there saw twenty-four heavy ancient dames, mortifying themselves in coarse blue cloth, close cells, and condiments. The lady abbess and her deputy received me very politely, and treated me to sweetmeats and anisette of their own making. They then led me to the chapel, the garden, and the galleries of the nunnery, in all of which I encountered fair devotees, muffled up to the nose, after the fashion of the Armenian ladies, and engaged in the various operations of sock knitting, smoking and praying. Poverty and dirt were the distinguishing features of the whole establishment. The convent of Julfa is better found. The governing bishop and his confreres have ample 132 A VESTRY DINNER. room, plenty of society, and a well furnished table. I dined once with his lordship and the churchwardens, and found that vestry honours and vestry appetites are not exclusively English characteristics. The dinner was spread as usual on the ground, on a large white cloth, around which the guests assembled. Placed opposite each guest was a plate, knife, fork, spoon, and glass, a piece of cheese, two or three feet of bread, and a hard boiled egg. The feast commenced by each person drinking a dram of aniseed; then came in quick succession mutton chops, boiled fowls, boiled kidneys, sour curds, tea, apricots, apples, and grapes, sweetmeats, and salt fish; to each of which laymen and churchmen did equal justice, finishing the feast with a sacrifice to Bacchus. I remained a month at Isfahan, and passed the latter half of the time in arranging for my...