From the Gulf to Ararat An Expedition Through Mesopotamia And Kurdistan
The book From the Gulf to Ararat An Expedition Through Mesopotamia And Kurdistan was written by author G E Gilbert Ernest Hubbard Here you can read free online of From the Gulf to Ararat An Expedition Through Mesopotamia And Kurdistan book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is From the Gulf to Ararat An Expedition Through Mesopotamia And Kurdistan a good or bad book?
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In each of the three towns which boast an English population, Mohammerah, Basra, and Bagdad, there is a flourishing English club (I am speaking, naturally, of normal times of peace), and Englishmen foregather to race, play cricket, tennis, and golf as they do all the world over. While at Mohammerah the Anglo - Persian Oil Company contributes the largest section of the colony, the Basra colony are chiefly merchants engaged in the shipping of dates. Half a million pounds' worth of this fruit in i...ts dried state is exported on an average every year from Basra. The dates are not the dessert variety packed seductively in double rows in an oval wooden box, — those come from Tunis and Algiers, — but are mostly of the humbler sort which you see crushed out of all recognition on a coster's barrow. The trade is principally in the hands of Europeans, and the flrst shipments of the season from Basra are attended with almost as much rush and excite- 156 From the Gulf to Ararat ment as existed in the old days of the tea- clippers.
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