Ch.XXII, p.495, f.3
"Siyyid Yahya was strangled with his own girdle by one whose two brothers
had been killed during the siege, and the other Babis likewise died by the
hands of the executioner. The heads of the victims were stuffed with
straw, and bearing with them these grim trophies of their prowess,
together with some forty or fifty Babi women and one child of tender age
as captives, the victorious army returned to Shiraz. Their entry into
that city was made the occasion of general rejoicing; the captives were
paraded through the streets and bazaars and finally brought before Prince
Firuz Mirza, who was feasting in a summer-house called Kulah-i-Farangi.
In his presence Mihr-'Ali Khan, Mirza Na'im, and the other officers
recounted the details of their victory, and received congratulations and
marks of favour. The captive women were finally imprisoned in an old
caravanserai outside the Isfahan gate. What treatment they experienced
at the hands of their captors is left to our conjecture." ("A Traveller's
Narrative," Note H, p. 190.) "This day was a fete day, so an eye witness
tells us. The inhabitants were scattered about through the countryside,
bringing with them their food and many among them drinking, on the sly,
whole bottles of wine. The air was filled with musical strains, the songs
of musicians, the screaming and laughter of the lewd women. The bazaars
were adorned with flags joy was general. Suddenly there was absolute
silence. They saw coming thirty-two camels, each carrying an unfortunate
prisoner, a woman or a child, bound and thrown crosswise over the saddle
like a bundle. All around them were soldiers carrying long lances and upon
each lance was impaled the head of a Babi who had been slain at Nayriz.
The hideousness of the sight deeply affected the holiday population of
Shiraz and they returned, saddened, to their dwellings. "The horrible
caravan passed through the bazaars and continued to the palace of the
governor. This personage was in his garden where he had gathered in his
kiosk (called Kulah-i-Farangi) the rich, the eminent citizens of Shiraz.
The music ceased, the dancing stopped and Muhammad-'Ali-Khan as well as
Mirza Na'im, two small tribal chiefs who had taken part in the campaign,
came to tell of their brave deeds and to name one by one the prisoners."
(A. L. M. Nicolas' "Siyyid Ali-Muhammad dit le Bab," p. 407.)