Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII HOUSEKEEPING AT KERMAN IT was the end of March when we began our new life at Kerman, which we entered upon at the most charming season of the year in Persia, before the heat of summer had commenced to scorch up all the flowers and vegetables. During the previous October we had sent off our stores and luggage from London vid Karachi to Bunder Abbas, on the Persian Gulf, and as this port is only a fifteen days' journey from Kerman, it was a disappointment, on our arrival at the latter town, to find that only about half our baggage had reached its destination. Our glass and china, piano, camera and pictures, with many other treasures, were still at the coast, nor could repeated letters to the Custom House officials and Persian agents there bring our belongings to Kerman before the end of September, while the piano only turned up half-way through January of the following year, just three days before we left our home for good! I had started life in Persia, however, with a firm determination not to worry more than was strictly needful, and so was not greatly overcome when I discovered that some of my dresses were ruined by bilge-water getting into the packingcases, our consignment of wax matches being two-thirds spoilt from the same cause, while our packets of compressed tea and coffee had become mysteriously soaked with kerosene. Our life was so novel that we could well afford to see the comic side of such little contretemps, and, as most of our small supply of furniture was waiting transport at Bunder Abbas, I set to work to arrange our drawing-room somewhat after the manner of the couple in "Our Flat," improvising tables, seats, stands for nicknacks and so on, out of packingcases draped with Como rugs and Persian embroideries, ...
