THOMAS NELSON & SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN
AND NEW YORK

"Oft have I said, I say it once more,

I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself;

I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;

What the Eternal says, I, stammering, say again."

CONTENTS

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PART I
BRUSA TO DIARBEKR
Prologue[13]
I.Disentanglement[23]
II.Brigandage[34]
III.Social Intercourse[46]
IV.The Dawn of the Baghdad Railway[55]
V.In the Taurus[88]
VI.Royal Progress[112]
VII.Harran: A Digression into the Land of Abraham[132]
VIII.That Unblessed Land, Mesopotamia[146]
PART II
DOWN THE TIGRIS ON GOATSKINS
IX.Afloat[167]
X.Held Up[175]
XI.A Reception and a Dance[194]
XII.An Encounter with an Englishman[204]
XIII.The Creed of the Koran[215]
XIV.The Evil One[227]
XV.Arab Hospitality[241]
XVI.A Storm and a Lull[254]
XVII.An Encounter with Fanatics[267]
XVIII.The End of the Raft[277]
PART III
BAGHDAD TO DAMASCUS
XIX.Babylon[287]
XX.The Sound of the Desert[302]
XXI.Palmyra[316]
XXII.An Armenian and a Turk[325]
XXIII.Retrospective[354]
Appendix[367]