With the exception of these Barmecide feasts and some straw-flavoured eggs, there was nothing substantial to be got in any of the post-houses till we reached our destination.
About four o'clock on the 27th we first sighted the white peak of Mount Demavend, and by three o'clock next day were within sight of the dingy brown walls, mud houses, and white minarets of the city of the Shah--Teheran.
[Footnote A: Both have since met violent deaths.

Captain Gill was murdered by natives with Professor Palmer near Suez, and Captain Clayton killed while playing polo in India.].