From Berlin to Bagdad and Babylon

by J. A. Zahm

[145] Cf. Turkish Memories, p. 128, et passim (by Sidney Whitman). See Through Armenia on Horseback, Chap. VIII (by G. H. Hepworth, New York, 1918), and In the Palaces of the Sultan, pp. 426, 427 (by Anna Bowman Dodd).

[146] Op. cit., p. 108.

[147] Ibid., p. 116.

[148] Op. cit., p. 231.

[149] November 29, 1912.

[150] Le Chemin de Fer de Bagdad, p. 226 (Paris, 1915).

[151] Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by Order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836 and 1837, p. 360 (London, 1868).

[152] Ibid., p. viii.

[153] Lord Palmerston, it is interesting to observe in this connection, did not hesitate to declare in Parliament that the construction of the Suez Canal, as planned by De Lesseps, was physically impracticable and that the project was but a trap set for gullible capitalists.

[154] “Ismaili to Koweit Ry.,” National Review, p. 464, May, 1902.