A large trade is done here in olives.

Most of it is in the hands of two enterprising Frenchmen, who started business some years ago, and are doing well.
We managed to get a mouthful of food at Menjil while the horses were being changed.
Colonel S---- had especially warned us against sleeping here, the Chapar khaneh being infested with the Meana bug, a species of camel tick, which inflicts a poisonous and sometimes dangerous wound.

It is only found in certain districts, and rarely met with south of Teheran.
The virus has been known, in some cases, to bring on typhoid fever, and one European is said to have died from its effects.

For the truth of this I cannot vouch; but there is no doubt that the bite is always followed by three or four days' more or less serious indisposition..