The page count of the studies we’ve printed up till now reminds us to proceed more cautiously and with fewer digressions. For this reason we speak of the above-named, and quite excellent, man merely in passing. It is remarkable to consider various nations in their travellers. We find the English, amongst whom we pass over Shirley and Herbert very reluctantly; then the Italians; and lastly, the French. Now let a German step forth here in his strength and dignity. Unfortunately he teamed up with a man on his journey to the Persian court who appears as more of an adventurer than an envoy but behaved in both guises pigheadedly, clumsily and indeed, foolishly.156 The uprightness of the excellent Olearius was not misled by all this; he provides us with enormously enjoyable and instructive travel accounts which are all the more valuable because he arrived in Persia only a few years after della Valle and just after the death of ‘Abbas the Great; upon his return he made Sa‘di the Excellent known to Germans through his skilled and delightful translation. We break off unwillingly here for we also want to express our profound gratitude to this man for the great good we owe him. We find ourselves in a similar situation with respect to the following two men whose merits we can only superficially touch upon as well.