| The Golden Towers of Khadamain | [Frontispiece] |
| Abadan, Persia, the Oil Quays | [4] |
| H.M.S. MANTIS, one of the Monitors on the Tigris | [12] |
| Hospital Hulks at Basra | [18] |
| "The Solemn Palms were ranged above, unwoo'd of summer wind" | [22] |
| The House of Sinbad the Sailor, Basra | [24] |
| A Bend in "the Narrows" of the Tigris | [30] |
| A Marsh Arabs' Reed Village | [34] |
| Mud Houses on the Tigris | [40] |
| A Mahaila of the Inland Water Transport | [42] |
| Ezra's Tomb | [44] |
| On the Euphrates, Early Morning | [52] |
| Babylon, the Excavations at El-Kasr | [56] |
| An Old World Craft: a type of boat |
| unchanged since the days of Sinbad | [60] |
| Bellams under Sail | [62] |
| Babylon the Great is Fallen, is Fallen | [64] |
| A Street in Khadamain | [70] |
| Moonlight, Baghdad | [72] |
| A Nocturne of Baghdad | [74] |
| Mahaila and Marsh Arab's Bellam | [80] |
| 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] |