The Turks and Tartars in
Khorasan
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Mo’mud Causim had a second house and wife here, and we were well lodged.
Meshed-e Norooz found a Tabreez acquaintance, who, abusing the gone party for
Isphahaunees and cowards, invited us to start on the morrow with his party of
thirty or forty well-armed Toorks, and this we determined to do. The
Tabreezees, and the Persians of the western countries are called Toorks, on
account of their talking the Toorkish language. They are looked upon as regular
Rolandos, and it is a joke with them, that the Tartars, when they come to
attack a kafilah, call out to know if they are Toorks or Isphahaunees, that
they may know whether to leave or to attack them.
Arthur Conolly — Journey to the North of India.
Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan. Volume [01]
(1834)
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