BOKHARA RECEPTION AT THE TEKKIE, THE CHIEF NEST OF ISLAMISM RAHMET BI BAZAARS BAHA-ED-DIN, GREAT SAINT OF TURKESTAN SPIES SET UPON AUTHOR FATE OF RECENT TRAVELLERS IN BOKHARA BOOK BAZAAR THE WORM (RISHTE) WATER SUPPLY LATE AND PRESENT EMIRS HAREM, GOVERNMENT, FAMILY OF REIGNING EMIR SLAVE DEPOT AND TRADE DEPARTURE FROM BOKHARA, AND VISIT TO THE TOMB OF BAHA-ED-DIN. _Within earth's wide domains Are markets for men's lives; Their necks are galled with chains, Their wrists are cramped with gyves._ _Dead bodies, that the kite In deserts makes its prey; Murders that with affright Scare school-boys from their play!_ --Longfellow. [Bokhara; Reception at the Tekkie, the Chief Nest of Islamism] The road led us to the Dervaze Imam, situated to the west, but we did not pass through it, because, as our Tekkie lay to the north-east, we should have been forced to make our way through all the throngs in the bazaar. We preferred, therefore, to take a circuitous route along the city wall. This we found, in many places, in a ruinous state. Entering by the gate called Dervaze Mezar, we speedily reached the spacious Tekkie. It was planted with fine trees, formed a regular square, and had forty-eight cells on the ground floor. {168} The present Khalfa (principal) is grandson of Khalfa Hüsein, renowned for his sanctity, and the Tekkie itself is named after him. The estimation in which his family stands is shown by the fact that his relative, above mentioned, is Imam and Khatib (court priest) of the Emir, an official position which made me not a little proud of my host. Hadji Salih, who was a Mürid (disciple) of the saint, and was consequently regarded as a member of the family, presented me. The respectable 'Abbot,' a man of gentle demeanour and agreeable exterior, whom his snow-white turban and summer dress of fine silk well became, received me in the warmest manner, and, as I maintained for half-an-hour a conversation couched in tumid and far-fetched language, the good man was overjoyed, and regretted that the Badewlet [Footnote 43] (his Majesty the Emir) was not in Bokhara, that he might immediately present me. [Footnote 43: Badewlet means properly 'the prosperous one.'] [Rahmet Bi]