Colonel Stewart's kindness and hospitality are a byword in Persia, and the Sunday of our arrival at Resht was truly a day of rest after the discomfort and privations we had undergone since leaving Baku.
[Footnote A: _Isvostchik_, a cab-driver.] [Footnote B: "Tchornigorod," or "Black Town," so called from the smoke that hangs night and day over the oil-factories.] [Footnote C: Russian cabbage-soup.].