[Footnote 206: The present state of the Ghebers in Persia is
taken from Sir John Chardin, not indeed the most learned,
but the most judicious and inquisitive of our modern
travellers, (Voyages en Perse, tom. ii. p. 109, 179 - 187,
in 4to.) His brethren, Pietro della Valle, Olearius,
Thevenot, Tavernier, &c., whom I have fruitlessly searched,
had neither eyes nor attention for this interesting people.]