have their legs below the knee bound tightly with strips of dark felt.  Judging from outward appearances, Ayoob Khan wears his exile lightly, for his rotund countenance looks pleasant always, and I have never yet met him when he was not chatting gayly with his companion.  Of the interesting scenes and characters to be seen every day on the streets of Teheran, their name is legion.  The peregrinating tchai-venders, who, with their little cabinet of tea and sugar in one hand, and samovar with live charcoals in the other, wander about the city picking up stray customers, for whom they are prepared to make a glass of hot tea at one minute’s notice; the scores of weird-looking mendicants and dervishes with their highly fantastic costumes, assailing you with " huk, yah huk,” the barbers shaving the heads of their customers on the public streets — shaving their pates clean, save little tufts to enable Mohammed to pull them up to Paradise; and many others the description and enumeration of which would, of themselves, fill a good-sized volume.

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