head against it. On one occasion, owing to the thickness of the atmosphere by which we were surrounded, we got off the track and found ourselves hopelessly wandering in the wilderness. Fortunately I knew from the road notes with which we were furnished before leaving Tehran our general direction, and by consulting a pocket compass we eventually groped back on to the track, and after a twelve-mile ride from Mihr we reached a large brick serai, where we found and changed on to the horses which had been sent forward. After a short delay we continued our journey through the storm, passing at twenty-eight miles the village of Kashrood, and at thirty-two miles reached the commercial town of Sabziwar, having taken over five hours to cover the distance. Our eyes suffered considerably from the heat, as well as the dust, or rather sand, with which they were filled; but fortunately, in the carefully prepared medicine-chest supplied to us by Dr. Odling at Tehran, we found proper lotions with which to bathe them. Sabziwar is a fortified town of eighteen thousand inhabitants, in which a great deal of trade is springing up with Kuchan and Aska-
