Excerpt from Persian Children of the Royal Family: The Narrative of an English Tutor at the Court of H. I. H. Zillu's-Sultan, G. C. S. I Waving mass of White poppies With a patch of purple here and there, When the carriage, Which his Imperial Highness Zillu's - Sultan had sent to meet me at Natanz, the golden pear garden of Persia, bowled through the wayside bazaars on the skirts of the city of Isfahan, With its flashing blue-domed Mosque o'f Shah 'abbas the Great. Out there to the north, whence We had come, rises the snow capped peak of the Karku's Kfih, or Vulture Mountain, and I knew from the position of the sun that the time must be about two hours after his rising. Of that mountain, which might be said to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.