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 COLONEL STODDART'S FIRMNESS REWARDED. 319 The Persian army marched from the camp before Herat on the 9th of September of the year 1838, and on the morning of that day Colonel Stoddart, before setting out on his ill-fated journey to Bokhara, had the satisfaction to be able to report to Mr. McNeill : " The Shah has mounted his horse * Ameerij,' and is gone."