Visit to the Sheikh of Mohammerah—A Persian banquet

[CHAPTER V]

UP THE TIGRIS TO KUT

Work of the river flotilla—Thames steamboats on the Tigris—The waterway through the desert—The renaissance of Amarah—The river's jazz-step course—The old Kut and the new—In Townshend's old headquarters—Turks' monument to short-lived triumph

[CHAPTER VI]

BAGDAD

Arabian nights and motor-cars—The old and the new in Bagdad—"Noah's dinghy"—Bible history illustrated—At a famous tomb-mosque

[CHAPTER VII]

EARLY HISTORY OF DUNSTERVILLE's FORCE