The people of Azerbaijan are more
favourable for the Qajar Army
It is true, that the great mass of the people, averse
to innovation and ignorant of their real interests, have for a long time viewed
the regulars with hatred and contempt, classing them with “Russian dogs” and
pork-eaters, and refusing them the common offices of hospitality. But this
feeling is partial, and on the decline. The people of Adzerbijan, who have had
the best opportunities of judging of the beneficial effects produced by a
disciplined force, compared with a totally irregular one, are decidedly favourable
to it; and during the late campaigns of the Prince Royal in the south, east,
and heart of Persia, the unfavourable impressions hitherto entertained have
been almost entirely effaced.
Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, Fifteen months' pilgrimage through untrodden
tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in a journey from India to England, through
parts of Turkish Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Russia, and Germany. Performed in the
years 1831 and 1832. Vol. I. — London: Saunders and Otley, 1832, p. 173.
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