Note CN — CHAPTER 7 BELIEF AND DENIAL

On October 15th 1846, Major Hennell reported from Búshihr to Sheil in Ṭihrán that cholera reached Shíráz about September 22nd, and that 'immediately the fact was ascertained' Ḥusayn Khán left Shíráz and went well away. At the time of his writing, Hennell states, the Governor had come back, to Bágh-i-Takht, a garden and palace on the northern heights overlooking Shíráz. On November 16th, Hennell reported that 'the cholera has ceased its ravages at Shiraz', that it had spread as far away as Fasá and Jahrum, that there had been no fatal cases in Búshihr, and that Baṣrah and Baghdád in Turkish domains had suffered most, deaths numbering up to 200 a day in Baṣrah. (F.O. 268/113.)