Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.6.1

19.6.1

As I was predestined to have connections with the English, it was my good fortune, doubtless, that led me back to that city; for amongst the English gentlemen that accompanied the Navvab so far, and now took their leave of him, were Mr. Wats and Mr. Amiatt. Both these gentlemen had a great friendship for Mir-abdollah, a valuable man, my intimate friend, whom we must introduce to the readers' acquaintance. His father, Mir-gh8lam-aaly, the Sefian, drew his pedigree from that Emperor, (whose tents be pitched in Heaven!) Shah-ismail, the Sefian, the Moosevian, who was the first ancestor of the Emperors who have reigned in Iran, under the appellation of the race of Sefi, as well as the principal pearl of that Imperial crown, that has shone with so much lustre on the stage of the world. But amongst the illustrious ancestors of Mir-abdollah's, the first who made his appearance in Hindostan, was a nephew of Shah-tahmasp, son to the glorious Shah-ismail. He had quitted Iran at a time when the troubles had arisen in that country, and when Sooltan Mohammed, son to Shah-tahmasp, had been deprived of his eyesight; nearly about the time when his illustrious son, Shah-abbass, having torn up his enemies by the root from the region of existence, had, like that lion of war, Ascandr Makedon, rendered his empire more formidable than it had ever been before.