Before the afternoon was over, the American Concessionnaire had come to realize that the situation was less assured than he had thought.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
The nature of the ground makes this road a good fair-weather one, and as the Russian company has rented it from the Persian Concessionnaire, we may expect to hear of considerable improvements, so as to encourage an increase of the Persian waggon traffic which already exists on it.
"Persia Revisited"
Thomas Edward Gordon