History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

Albert Enward, Prince of ales,

THESE VOLUMES,

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF A COMMUNITY WHICH DESCENDS FROM THE ANCIENT PERSIANS, AND CLAIMS TO BE THE MOST LOYAL AMONG THE MANY MILLIONS OF EASTERN SUBJECTS WHO RECOGNISE THE BENEFICENT SWAY OF

THE BRITISH CROWN, ARE,

WITH HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS’S MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION, DEDICATED, in Commemoration of His Auspicious Visit to Envia,

BY HIS MOST HUMBLE AND GRATEFUL SERVANT

THE AUTHOR.

a