Upon His [Báb] arrival in Máh-Kú, surnamed by Him Jabal-i-Básiṭ
(the Open Mountain) no one was allowed to see Him for the first two weeks
except His amanuensis, Siyyid Ḥusayn, and his brother. So grievous was His
plight while in that fortress that, in the Persian Bayán, He Himself has stated
that at night-time He did not even have a lighted lamp, and that His solitary
chamber, constructed of sun-baked bricks, lacked even a door, while, in His
Tablet to Muhammad Sháh, He has complained that the inmates of the fortress
were confined to two guards and four dogs. 
circa 1935 - Mah-Ku
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)