Front matter

YEZDI TYPES.

The numbers are from the left.

1. A qan’at maker. This is the man who digs the tunnels by which the water is brought from the base of the hills to the towns in the plain. The leather bag on his arm is a bucket.

2. A Parsi raiyat, or agriculturist, with his spade.

3. A porter.

4. A charvadar (muleteer) from Lāristān. These very big men often come to Yezd with caravans.

5. A Jew, who is divining from his book for the charvadar. The Jew has his boy with him.

6. An oil-seller. He carries the oil in gourds.

7. A darvish, or religious mendicant.

8. An Arab. These are sometimes seen in Yezd, but like the Lari charvadar they do not really belong to the town.

FIVE YEARS IN A PERSIAN TOWN

BY NAPIER MALCOLM

NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY 1905

Printed in Great Britain.