Identifier: byniletigrisnarr01budguoft (find matches)
Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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native quarter, and so farfrom the river front that I declined, on the advice ofCaptain Cowley, to go there. Whilst I was consideringthe matter of lodgings (there was at that time no hotel inBaghdad), I received an invitation from Captain Butter-worth, of H.M.I.M.S. Comet, inviting me to stay on hisship as long as I needed to be in Baghdad. This invita-tion was prompted by Mr. Robertson, British Consul atBasrah, who pointed out to Captain Butterworth thatthe deck of the British gunboat Comet was Britishterritory, and that as I should certainly need a place ofstorage for tablets, the ship would be safer than a house inthe city of Baghdad as a place of deposit for purchases forthe British Museum. I accepted the invitation gratefully,and the sailors having transferred me and my bullock-trunks and the box of Tall al-Amarnah Tablets to a This is impossible. Opis lay on the west bank of the river, severalmiles above Baghdad ; see what is said in the second volume. I To face p. 182, vol. i.
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The Custom House at Baghdad—arrival of a steamer. i82 First Sight of Baghdad. seen. The courtyard was well built, and as the tomb was,and still is, a popular place of pilgrimage, its revenuemust be very considerable. We rejoined the steamer at the bend of the river, andcontinued our journey. Soon afterwards we passed themouth of the Diyala river (east bank) with its bridgeof boats ; close by at Rishada and Mismai are ruinswhich, as some believe, mark the site of Opis.^ We nextpassed the Island of Ghurrub, which was covered withsplendid palms and other trees, and then a smaller island,and then, rounding the bend, we entered the Baghdadreach of the river. We soon came abreast of the Resi-dency of the British Consul-General and the TurkishGovernment Offices, and tied up at one of the landing-stages on the east bank. A few minutes later crowds ofTurkish officials and friends of the passengers and nativesof all kinds rushed on board, and the appalling noise andconfusion which ensued were

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