text:  His sensations on entering this vast repository of arms were not unlike those attributed to a personage whose fictitious adventures though the production of a _Feringhi_ pen present one of the most faithful pictures extant of the genuine feelings of an oriental on Frank matters:--"When we came to the guns " says the eximious Hajji Baba "by my beard existence fled from our heads! We saw cannons of all sizes and denominations enough to have paved the way if placed side by side from Tehran to Tabriz--if placed lengthways Allah only knows where they would have reached--into the very grave of the father of all the Russians perhaps!" "The cannon distributed over the whole place " says the graver narrative of the Khan "are said to amount to 40 000! all ready for use in the army navy or fortresses; and as if these were not sufficient for the destruction of the human race other pieces are constantly casting by a process the reverse of that in India where the guns are cast in moulds--whereas here a solid cylinder is cast and afterwards bored shaped and finished by steam power