Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: did not know at the time that the distant hills that I sawrising back of Kazvin were once the stronghold of the Sheikhal-Jahal, Old Man of the Mountains, the head of the AssassinBand in the twelfth century, for I am sure I should have notedthe outline of these hills more closely than I did and shouldhave sought for local legends regarding the picturesque thoughvillanous outlaws whose name, hashshdshln, hashish-eaters, cor-rupted by Europeans into assassin, has become synonymouswith murderer. The next stages of the journey were devoted to sleeping asbest I could in the uncomfortable conveyance, but I awoke intime to enjoy the grand mountain scenery of the Kharzan Pass.This lofty roadway crosses the Alborz range at a height ofseven thousand feet, or more, above the Caspian, and in winterit is one of the bleakest and most desolate places in all Persia, apathway of death where many a beast of burden falls by theway. The descent to the village of Peichanar was slow and1 See Yakut, p. 443.

Text Appearing After Image: Thf. Mahmax-Khanah at Kazyix [The Mehmān-Khāneh at Kazvin (Qazvin)]

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