Travels in Various Countries of the East

TO SIR GORE OUSELEY BARONET; GRAND CORDON OF THE ROYAL PERSIAN ORDER OF THE LION AND SUN; GRAND CROSS OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ORDER OF SAINT ALEXANDER NEWSKI; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES; MEMBER OF THE ASIATICK SOCIETY AT CALCUTTA AND OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST. [...] Having mentioned the name of this extraordinary persoage whom a Spanish historian emphatically describes as the deceiver of the world the false prophet the envoy of Satan the worst of the precursors of Antichrist the ful-0 " filling of all heresies and the prodigy of all falsehood"(") I must here notice some of his disciples lest my reader accustomed to respect the title of " Saint " s [...] The six Plates which contribute most highly to the embelishment of this volume have been engraved from drawings made by my accomplished and amiable friend who while these pages were in the press has received the reward of promotion due to his services and is mentioned in the scond volume under the title of Colonel D'Arcy. [...] For the sake of similar-illustration the Persian Map is extracted (in Plates VIII and IX) from a most valuable manuscript of the thirteenth century and to the explanation of this map an article in the Appendix is devoted. [...] Early on the twenty-ninth we saw the bold rocky mountains the valfies and some whitish buildings in the island of Pogo Santo and at six o'clock we anchored in the beautiful bay of Funchal the principal town of Madeira having sailed since our departure from Portsmouth according to daily computations accurately registered by officers of the ship one thousand five.hundred and nineteen miles.