. On the road to Bagdad, a story of Townshend's gallent advance on the Tigris. eners, sketching in a linefrom the southern border of Persia. It strikes acrossthe desert to the east of the River Karun, and joinsup with the Shatt-el-Arab, close to a place calledMohammera. I ought to explain that the RiversTigris and Euphrates join up somewhere in the regionof Kurnah and Basra, and then flow on, picking upthe River Karun and opening into the Persian Gulfsome twenty miles farther down. As to Turks, ofcourse the bulk of them are up country, particularlyin the neighbourhood of Bagdad. But there are
. On the road to Bagdad, a story of Townshend's gallent advance on the Tigris. eners, sketching in a linefrom the southern border of Persia. It strikes acrossthe desert to the east of the River Karun, and joinsup with the Shatt-el-Arab, close to a place calledMohammera. I ought to explain that the RiversTigris and Euphrates join up somewhere in the regionof Kurnah and Basra, and then flow on, picking upthe River Karun and opening into the Persian Gulfsome twenty miles farther down. As to Turks, ofcourse the bulk of them are up country, particularlyin the neighbourhood of Bagdad. But there are forti-fied posts along both rivers and right down to themouth of the Shatt-el-Arab. At Basra there are quitea considerable number of Europeans and Indians, andthey tell me that an increasing trade is done fromthat port. If we land somewhere about there we aresure to be opposed, and if there werent any Turksthere are any number of Arabs, some of whom, atleast, are likely to be unfriendly. Geoffrey Keith and Another 35 So that therell be fighting, eh? asked thesenior !^Barjisiyeh ^OTi^ (p^^Abada English Miteso j y> ao 30 40 JO 60 70 80
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