LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
By ALLAN STEWART
["I balanced it exactly, and slowly and steadily drew it up!"]
["That this was the Sheik himself we instantly realised"]
["He prostrated himself before the Goddess, and besought her to give heat to the fire"]
["'By the will of Allah,' he said, 'the child is sick'"]
["When next I awoke, Edwards was sitting by my side"]
["Daylight showed us, in the far distance, the mound of the Birs Nimroud"]
["We could see below us ... the figure of a man lying across the gunwale"]
["The two of them as proud as peacocks"]