K
Ka’aba at Mecca, the, [193]
Kabobs, [225]
Kajâvah, the, as a means of travelling, [23];
the government official and his wife, [24]
Kalah Shurgât, an Assyrian ruin, [179]
Kalian, the, or water-pipe, [49]
Kalimat, the, or declaration of faith, [106]
Kanâts, or tunnels for supplying water, [48]
Karduchi, the, or Parthians, [192]
Kashan, silk-weaving at, [46]
—— the copper-work of, [47]
Keleg, or raft of the Tigris, [201]
Kerman, medical work opened at, [17];
arrival at, [18];
a cloud of locusts, [22];
Jews at, [29];
first view of, [30];
derivation of the name, [31];
antiquity of, [31];
vicissitudes, [31];
poverty of, [32];
ancient Kerman, [33];
legend of the jackals, [37];
carpet-making, [43];
children employed in carpet-weaving, [44];
shawl manufactories, [46];
climate, [57];
social life, [71];
recreations, [79];
Parsees, [120];
establishment of Medical Mission, [151];
native surgery, [153];
a trying operation, [155];
an opium patient, [158]
—— the beautiful traitress of, [36]
Khan Baba Khan, the anderoon of, [88]
Kissing the hand, [250]
Koork, a species of goat, [46]
Korsi, the, or stove, [52]
Kouyunjik, one of the mounds of Nineveh, [173], [175]
Kurdistan carpets, [43]
Kurds, the, [192]