By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . m houses near the Residencwas the large and handsome dweUing built by the L\-nchefor their own occupation. On the south side of it waslarge sarddb, the walls of which were lined \s\Xh. baireliefs from one of the palaces of Ashur-nasir-pal, aNimrud. This fine house was, I am told, carefully blowup by the Turks on the Saturday preceding the captuiof Baghdad by the British on Simday, the nth of Marct1917. The Castle, Al-Kalah, in the north-west comer cEastern Bag
By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913 . m houses near the Residencwas the large and handsome dweUing built by the L\-nchefor their own occupation. On the south side of it waslarge sarddb, the walls of which were lined \s\Xh. baireliefs from one of the palaces of Ashur-nasir-pal, aNimrud. This fine house was, I am told, carefully blowup by the Turks on the Saturday preceding the captuiof Baghdad by the British on Simday, the nth of Marct1917. The Castle, Al-Kalah, in the north-west comer cEastern Baghdad, and the buildings grouped about ipossessed many points of interest, but I found no onwho could tell me anything about them. Many parts (them were in a state of semi-ruin, and, like Xiebuhr,mar\-elled at the poHteness of the Tiirks, which allowehim and myself to enter the ammunition stores and tlpowder magazine almost unquestioned. Standing on itgreat tower called Tabiyah Sabunjiyah, and lookiiover the cit\ eastwards, it seemed to me that the northerhalf of the area of Eastern Baghdad was in ruins. Tl To face p. 20S, vol. Western Baghdad in 1888. 209 founders of the city called it, among other high-soundingnames, Dar as-Salam, or the Habitation of seemed to me that the name was still appropriate,but that the peace of which it was the habitation was thepeace produced by decay. Crossing by the bridge of boats to Western Baghdad, Ifound myself quite near the eastern end of the city wall,which was in a greatly decayed state. I saw a fewgardens and plantations near the southern part of thecity wall, and several shallow sheets of water, the remainsof successive floods. The streets were very narrow, andthe houses more miserable than those of Eastern in threading my way through the south-west quarterof Western Baghdad to see the tombs of Shekh Dawud,and Shekh Maruf, and Sittah Zubedah, all of which layoutside the city wall, I had to pass through slums that
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