This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. 'ARRIVAL AT BAGDAD.--WHIMSICAL CONDUCT OF THE GUIDE.--SHORT ACCOUNT OF BAGDAD.--RUINS OF.BABYLON--LEAVES BAGDAD.--ATTACKED BY ROBBERS ON THE TIGRIS--ARRIVAL AT BASSORA.--ACCOUNT OF THAT CITY.--LEAVES IT, AND ARRIVES AT BU3HEER.--MORE DISAPPOINTMENTS.--BOMBAY. GO A GLOOMY PRESENTIMENTS ON ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. 'ARRIVAL AT BAGDAD.--WHIMSICAL CONDUCT OF THE GUIDE.--SHORT ACCOUNT OF BAGDAD.--RUINS OF.BABYLON--LEAVES BAGDAD.--ATTACKED BY ROBBERS ON THE TIGRIS--ARRIVAL AT BASSORA.--ACCOUNT OF THAT CITY.--LEAVES IT, AND ARRIVES AT BU3HEER.--MORE DISAPPOINTMENTS.--BOMBAY. GO A GLOOMY PRESENTIMENTS ON LEAVING GOA.--A STORM--SHIPWRECK. AFTER passing through an immense tract of country, distinguished by nothing that could serve even as a circumstance to mark and remember the daily journeys, but which our traveller observed to grow manifestly worse, both in soil and climate, as he proceeded southward. He came in sight of the famous city of Bagdad, on the.seventh day from that on which he left Mosul, and on the eighteenth from that of his departure from Aleppo; in which eighteen days he had rode fourteen hundred miles, partly through a route which no European, as he says he has reason to believe, ever took before. On entering the city, he desired his guide to conduct him to the house of a merchant, to whom he had got letters of credit and introduction. Accordingly, after winding through several streets, he arrived at last at the door of an Armenian merchant, or Coju, where he alighted, and was received with great politeness: but, on producing his letters, he found that this merchant was not the person to whom it was directed: the Captain accordingly made a suitable apology, and was retiring to find the house of the proper person, for which purpose the Armenian offered him a servant, when, to his great astonishment, the Tartar interfered; said that it was to this merchant he brought all his goods, and that Capt. Campbell must remain where he was; at the same time ordering the Armenian, in a peremptory tone, to take charge of him, and use him...
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