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PREFACE.
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are offered to them. When the distinguishing characteristics of the people of Oriental nations are taken into consideration, it must be evident that the Parsees form a striking exception to the other races, and on this account the author feels less diffidence in bringing the history of his people under the notice of the British public.

The author is desirous that his European readers should bear in mind, that the present work is the production of a foreigner, in whose writing any errors of composition may be pardoned, as arising from the circumstances of his birth and position: the want of an idiomatic knowledge of the language in which he writes, may have deprived his pages of all grace of style. He is conscious, however, that he has most rigidly adhered to truth, and should he have succeeded in rendering his narrative clear and intelligible, the object with which he set out will have been fully accomplished.

London, July 23rd, 1858.

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