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Abadan, Persia, the Oil Quays 4 H.M.S. MANTIS, one of the Monitors on the Tigris 12 Hospital Hulks at Basra 18 "The Solemn Palms were ranged above, unwoo'd of summer wind" 22 The House of Sinbad the Sailor, Basra 24 A Bend in "the Narrows" of the Tigris 30 A Marsh Arabs' Reed Village 34 Mud Houses on the Tigris 40 A Mahaila of the Inland Water Transport 42 Ezra's Tomb 44 On the Euphrates, Early Morning 52 Babylon, the Excavations at El-Kasr 56 An Old World Craft: a type of boat unchanged since the days of Sinbad 60 Bellams under Sail 62 Babylon the Great is Fallen, is Fallen 64 A Street in Khadamain 70 Moonlight, Baghdad 72 A Nocturne of Baghdad 74 Mahaila and Marsh Arab's Bellam 80 A Moonlight Fantasy: Kut, from the ruins of the Licquorice Factory 94 Dawn at Amara 100 A Backwater in Eden 102 Puffing Billy on the Tigris 106 Sunset on the Tigris 112 Sheik Saad and the Persian Mountains 114 Hit, known to the Arabs as the Mouth of Hell 116 A British Cruiser in the Persian Gulf 122

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