THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN

BY JAMES MORIER

ILLUSTRATED BY H.R. MILLAR

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. GEORGE CURZON, M.P.

MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK

1895

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE

THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA

CHAPTER I — Of Hajji Baba’s birth and education.

CHAPTER II — Hajji Baba commences his travels—His encounter with the Turcomans, and his captivity.

CHAPTER III — Into what hands Hajji Baba falls, and the fortune which his razors proved to him.

CHAPTER IV — Of his ingenuity in rescuing his master’s money from the Turcoman, and of his determination to keep it.

CHAPTER V — Hajji Baba becomes a robber in his own defence, and invades his native city.

CHAPTER VI — Concerning the three prisoners taken by the Turcomans, and of the booty made in the caravanserai.

CHAPTER VII — Hajji Baba evinces a feeling disposition—History of the poet Asker.

CHAPTER VIII — Hajji Baba escapes from the Turcomans—The meaning of ‘falling from the frying-pan into the fire’ illustrated.

CHAPTER IX — Hajji Baba, in his distress, becomes a saka, or water-carrier.

CHAPTER X — He makes a soliloquy, and becomes an itinerant vendor of smoke.

CHAPTER XI — History of Dervish Sefer, and of two other dervishes.

CHAPTER XII — Hajji Baba finds that fraud does not remain unpunished, even in this world—He makes fresh plans.

CHAPTER XIII — Hajji Baba leaves Meshed, is cured of his sprain, and relates a story.

CHAPTER XIV — Of the man he meets, and the consequences of the encounter.

CHAPTER XV — Hajji Baba reaches Tehran, and goes to the poet’s house.

CHAPTER XVI — He makes plans for the future, and is involved in a quarrel.

CHAPTER XVII — He puts on new clothes, goes to the bath, and appears in a new character.

CHAPTER XVIII — The poet returns from captivity—the consequences of it for Hajji Baba.

CHAPTER XIX — Hajji Baba gets into the service of the king’s physician—Of the manner he was first employed by him.

CHAPTER XX — He succeeds in deceiving two of the faculty, getting a pill from one, and a piece of gold from the other.

CHAPTER XXI — He describes the manner in which the Shah of Persia takes medicine.

CHAPTER XXII — Hajji Baba asks the doctor for a salary, and of the success of his demand.

CHAPTER XXIII — He becomes dissatisfied with his situation, is idle, and falls in love.

CHAPTER XXIV — He has an interview with the fair Zeenab, who relates how she passes her time in the doctor’s harem.

CHAPTER XXV — The lovers meet again, and are very happy—Hajji Baba sings.

CHAPTER XXVI — The history of Zeenab, the Cûrdish slave.

CHAPTER XXVII — Of the