Through Asiatic Turkey: Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus

Aleppo Alexandretta amongst Arabs Armenian arrived Asiatic asked Assyrian Baghdad Bahrein banks Bishop boats Bombay brick British built Bushire Bussorah canal carried Chaldean Christians Church Circassians Cloth Constantinople course desert Diarbekir doubt dragoman empire England English Euphrates European feet French give Government Governor ground Gulf half hand Hillah hills horses hundred Hussein India Jews Jezeerah journey Kerbella Kerkook Kurdish Kurds Lake Van land look Mardin marsh ment Midhat Pasha miles Mohammerah morning Moslems mosque Mosul mound mountains Muscat Mussulman native nearly Nejef Nestorians night Nisibin o'clock officers once Orfah Ottoman Pasha pass Persian piastres pilgrims plain population port railway river route ruin Russians seen sent sheep sheik side soldiers steamer Sultan surajee Syrian things Tigris tion told town trade traveller troops Turkey Turkish Turks turned village walls whole zaptiehs