LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Freya Stark, from a pencil sketch by Dorothy Hawksley frontispiece

Facing page

Fort Alishtar........16

The Guard on the Varazan Pass 16

The Bride of QaTa Kafrash.....18

A Lur in Khava wearing a costume now prohibited ly the
Persian Government, and a headdress to be replaced by
the Pahlevi hat......32

Printed in the " London Illustrated News "

A Lur Caravan at Arjini.....36

The Mound at Qal'a Kafrash.....36

A looted graveyard across the Kangevari . . 38

Printed in the " London Illustrated Nats "

A bronze-age grave from Dilfan.....38

Keram Khan........48

The farewell to Keram Khan above Harsin 56

The Rock of Alamutfrom the South . . . .210
The Rock ofAlamut

Elburz in the background
Ruins ofNevisar Shah......218
Ruins on the Alamut Rock, looking South . . .218
Village of Garmrud in the Alamut Valley , . .228
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