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Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.16 (search)
relay arrived and away I sped, to the ruins of Pasargadae. Inclining a little towards the right, I came to a group of low and greyish hills, on the most southward of which I caught a glimpse of a whitish stone wall. Riding up to it, I found it to be a marble platform, or, rather, a marble wall, which encased the hill. The natives call it Solomon's Throne, and on it once stood the Castle of Pasargadae. To commemorate the overthrow of the Babylonian Empire, Cyrus the Great, in the year 557 B. C., caused to be erected on it a fort, or castle, containing a Holy Place, whither he went to worship, and where his successors were wont to be inaugurated as Kings of Persia. From Pasargadae Stanley rides to Persepolis, and here he lingers amid the ruins, for he loves to dream of and reconstruct the mighty Past. I slept in the first portal of Persepolis, all night. The only food I could get was wafer bread and plenty of milk. Early the next morning, July 1st, Stanley rode away, a