Of the governor's legal heir and successor, Gurgin Khan, the Bab
preserved a much less favourable recollection. In the same letter
which has been quoted from already he says: 'Finally, Gurgin made me
travel during seven nights without any of the necessaries of a
journey, and with a thousand lies and a thousand acts of violence.'
[Footnote: _AMB_, p. 371.] In fact, after trying to impose upon
the Bab by crooked talk, Gurgin, as soon as he found out where the
Bab had taken refuge, made him start that same night, just as he
was, and without bidding farewell to his newly-married wife, for the
capital. 'So incensed was he [the Bab] at this treatment that he
determined to eat nothing till he arrived at Kashan [a journey of five
stages], and in this resolution he persisted... till he reached the
second stage, Murchi-Khur. There, however, he met Mulla Sheykh
Ali... and another of his missionaries, whom he had commissioned two
days previously to proceed to Tihran; and then, on learning from his
guards how matters stood, succeeded in prevailing on him to take some
food.' [Footnote: _NH_, pp. 348, 349.]

Certainly it was a notable journey, diversified by happy meetings with
friends and inquirers at Kashan, Khanlik, Zanjan, Milan, and Tabriz.
At Kashan the Bab saw for the first time that fervent disciple, who
afterwards wrote the history of early Babism, and his equally
true-hearted brother--merchants both of them. In fact, Mirza Jani
bribed the chief of the escort, to allow him for two days the felicity
of entertaining God's Messenger. [Footnote: _Ibid_. pp. 213, 214.]
Khanlik has also--though a mere village--its honourable record, for
there the Bab was first seen by two splendid youthful heroes
[Footnote: _Ibid_. pp. 96-101.]--Riza Khan (best hated of all the
Babis) and Mirza Huseyn 'Ali (better known as Baha-'ullah). At
Milan (which the Bab calls 'one of the regions of Paradise'), as