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Ship loading with Oil 7 "A Mysterious-looking furnace tower" 9 "Crude steam engines evolved by Titans when the world was young" 11 In Ashar Creek 16 Sunset, Old Basra 21 Dhows, Basra 26 Monitor "Moth" at Basra 28 The Sirens of the Narrows 33 Noah's Ark, 1919 36 Upward Bound on the Tigris 38 Hillah 47 Ctesiphon 50 Ancient Irrigation Channel near Hillah 55 Tower of Babel. Fig. 1 57 The Tower of Babel 59 Tower of Babel. Fig. 2 60 Tower of Babel. Fig. 3 61 Goufas on the Tigris 68 "A magic vignette of palms, Eastern buildings, and a large South-Western Railway engine" 77 "Suddenly we came upon a scene of strange beauty and dramatic effect" 79 "By garden porches on the brim, The costly doors flung open wide" 82 "All round the fragrant marge, From fluted vase and brazen urn, In order, Eastern flowers large." 83 "By Baghdad's shrines of fretted gold, High-walled gardens, green and old." 85 Showing the Simplicity of Mesopotamian Domestic Architecture. Tigris 88 Baghdad 90 "Puffing Billy" in Baghdad 91 A Bit of Old Baghdad 93 "Blossoms and fruit at once of golden hue Appeared, with gay enamelled colours mixed."