To the Right Honourable
Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. F.R.S. F.A.S.
Knight of the Lion and Sun,
Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, Chairman of the Oriental Translation Committee, &c. &c. &c.
Sir,
Rejoiced in the opportunity, which your kind permission has allowed me, of dedicating to you one of the earliest productions of the Oriental Committee of Translation, over which you so ably preside, I should feel perfect satisfaction in the performance of this pleasing duty, bound to it by the obligations which your patronage has laid upon me, were the offering in any respect worthy of the approbation desired to be conferred by its benevolent acceptor.
A Guest and Counsellor of Princes, whether ruling over the orient realms of sun-bright Persia, or Masters of the victorious lion of the British Empire, you would wish that the Travels of Macarius should present to you observations equal to your own, upon the interests of Kingdoms, and the manners of Kings. A diligent traveller over remote and but slightly-explored regions, replete with the opposite varieties of East and West, you would look for details of novelty, such as yourself could
