Part 1 — CHAPTER XI.--Page 197
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CHAPTER XI.--Page 197
Bokhara to Samarcand
Little Desert of Chöl Melik
Animation of Road owing to War
First View of Samarcand
Haszreti Shah Zinde
Mosque of Timour
Citadel (Ark)
Reception Hall of Timour
Köktash or Timour's Throne
Singular Footstool
Timour's Sepulchre and that of his Preceptor
Author visits the actual Tomb of Timour in the Souterrain
Folio Koran ascribed to Osman, Mohammed's Secretary
Colleges
Ancient Observatory
Greek Armenian Library not, as pretended, carried off by Timour
Architecture of Public Buildings not Chinese but Persian
Modern Samarcand
Its Population
Dehbid
Author decides to return
Arrival of Emir
Author's Interview with him
Parting from the Hadjis, and Departure from Samarcand.