A Dweller in Mesopotamia. Donald Maxwell

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A Moonlight Fantasy: Kut, from the ruins of the Licquorice Factory 94 Dawn at Amara 100 A Backwater in Eden 102 Puffing Billy on the Tigris 106 Sunset on the Tigris 112 Sheik Saad and the Persian Mountains 114 Hit, known to the Arabs as the Mouth of Hell 116 A British Cruiser in the Persian Gulf 122

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Abadan	2
"Serried ranks of tall iron funnels"	6
Ship loading with Oil	7
"A Mysterious-looking furnace tower"	9
"Crude steam engines evolved by Titans when the world was young"	11
In Ashar Creek	16
Sunset, Old Basra	21
Dhows, Basra	26
Monitor "Moth" at Basra	28
The Sirens of the Narrows	33
Noah's Ark, 1919	36
Upward Bound on the Tigris	38
Hillah	47
Ctesiphon	50
Ancient Irrigation Channel near Hillah	55
Tower of Babel. Fig. 1	57
The Tower of Babel	59
Tower of Babel. Fig. 2	60
Tower of Babel. Fig. 3	61
Goufas on the Tigris	68
"A magic vignette of palms, Eastern buildings, and a
large South-Western Railway engine"	77
"Suddenly we came upon a scene of strange beauty and
dramatic effect"	79
"By garden porches on the brim, The costly doors flung open wide"	82
"All round the fragrant marge, From fluted vase and brazen
urn, In order, Eastern flowers large."	83
"By Baghdad's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens,
green and old."	85
Showing the Simplicity of Mesopotamian Domestic
Architecture. Tigris	88
Baghdad	90
"Puffing Billy" in Baghdad	91
A Bit of Old Baghdad	93
"Blossoms and fruit at once of golden hue Appeared, with gay
enamelled colours mixed."	98