The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri

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I HUNTING AND HAWKING SCENE (FROM A PAINTING IN AN ANCIENT PERSIAN MS.)
THE BĀZ-NĀMA-YI NĀṢIRĪ A PERSIAN TREATISE ON FALCONRY
TRANSLATED BY LIEUT.-COLONEL D. C. PHILLOTT SECRETARY, BOARD OF EXAMINERS, CALCUTTA, GENERAL SECRETARY AND PHILOLOGICAL SECRETARY, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FELLOW OF THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY, EDITOR OF THE PERSIAN TEXT OF THE QAWĀNĪN u ’Ṣ-ṢAYYĀD ETC. ETC.
LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH 1908
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
On the death of Fatḥ ʿAlī Shāh, in A.H. 1250 (A.D. 1834), general confusion prevailed: the claimants to the Crown were many. The details of these claims and the actions of the various aspirants to establish them are exceedingly complicated and difficult to follow. The old Z̤ill u ’s-Sult̤ān first mounted the throne at Teheran. His nephew the young Muḥammad Mīrzā was then Governor of Tabrīz, and his troops had not been paid for some time. However, receiving pecuniary support from the English ambassador, and moral support from the Russian, he marched on Teheran (putting out the eyes of a brother or two en route ), and was met by the army (hastily paid up to date, and even in advance), of the Z̤ill u ’s-Sult̤ān . The moving spirit in Muḥammad Mīrzā’s army appears to have been an Englishman named Lynch, who, nominally in command of the artillery, virtually managed what cannot be better described than as “the whole show.” The camp of the Z̤ill u ’s-Sult̤ān awoke in the morning to discover that, during the night, their General had gone over to the enemy; and that Mr. Lynch, having pointed four big guns at their camp, was haranguing them from his position, and exhorting them to go home. His arguments appeared reasonable. Part of the Z̤ill u ’s-Sult̤ān’s army crossed over to Mr. Lynch, and part returned home. “In a moment, this fine army was disbanded, scattered like the stars of the Great Bear, every man going to his own place.”