Untruthfulness of Persians, 116, 142 _Vatan_, home-district, 39 Villages, 8; hill-, 31, 32 Walls, house-, 16 Waraka ibn Nawfal, a prominent _Hanif_, 66 Water system, 6 White, Dr Henry, 204, 260, 261 Windows, 19, 20 Winter rooms, 18 _Yailāq_, 31 Yazīd, 134 Yezd district, houses in, 1-35; its isolation and insularity, 36 Yezdis, and Isfahanis, 38; their religion, 111, 120-126; character of the, 136-187; systematised inconsistency, 137; loyalty, 138; sense of shame, 147; humour, 148; their disregard of time, 150; difficulties of their language, 152; lack of initiative, 154; their courage, 155; etiquette and manners of, 158; their triviality, 160; pride, 165, 166; kindliness, cruelty, 166; dishonesty, 142, 168; lack of business habits, 171; fatalism, 173; latent strength, 176; their family ties, 177; _jus paternum_, 181; religious liberty, 181-183; indifference to crime, 184; open-handness, 184 Zaid, 71 Zaid ibn Amr, 66 Zainab, 71 Zardūshtī (Zoroastrian), 50 Zillu’s Sultān, 50, 52 Zoroastrians, in Yezd, 46-53, 113 PRINTED AT THE EDINBURGH PRESS, 9 AND 11 YOUNG STREET. [Illustration: CENTRAL PERSIA illustrating FIVE YEARS IN A PERSIAN TOWN. By the Rev. Napier Malcolm.] End of Project Gutenberg's Five Years in a Persian Town, by Napier Malcolm