The Gate of Asia: a Journey From the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea
The Gate of Asia: a Journey From the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea
William Warfield
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This I finally wrung from the mptieh. Then I threaded my way through the throng in the square to the inn. There I found Kurdistan and the Upper Tigris in Edwin Warfield in some excitement for he had seen the mob gather and learned from the badly frightened Asoufi that I was the centre of interest. Kerkuk officialdom did, however, do us one kindness; that was, to send a policeman to the inn as a bodyguard. He cleared the curious from the inn-yard and stopped a lot of ragged boys from throwing mu...d in at the window of our gloomy little lime-washed room. Without his presence we should not again have been able to sally forth into the streets so great was the notoriety I had secured. The principal mosque of the city contains the tombs of Shadrach and Abednego, while Meshach also is said to be buried here, though the place of his interment has been forgotten. Without the city are the tombs of many Moslem saints. One of the most recent of them is that of Sheikh Kadr, an intimate of Sheikh Seyyid, whom I shall mention later.
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