[500 copies of this book have been printed]

TO
HIS EXCELLENCY
THE ʿALA^U ’L-MULK

formerly
Governor-General of Kirmān
and
Persian Baluchistan

THIS TRANSLATION IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

In Memory
of
Certain Days not Unpleasant when we Met in the

BĀG͟H

AND MINGLED OUR TEARS OVER OUR

EXILE