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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he 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. To face p. 182, vol. i.
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The Custom House at Baghdad—arrival of a steamer. The Kuffah. 183 kuffah,^ or asphaltic coracle, we drifted down-stream to the Comet, where Captam Butterworth wasawaiting me. This procedure did not please the Customsofficials, several of whom leaped into kuffahs and followedus as fast as their men could row. They overtook us atthe gangway ladder, and tried to cut me off from theship by thrusting their kuffahs in the way ; and as someof them jumped on to the rounded edge of my kuffah,and tried to drag out of it my trunks and the box ofTall Al-Amarnah Tablets, I became anxious lest in thestruggle the kuffah should capsize, and the box of tabletsbe lost in the Tigris. It was this box which caused allthe trouble. As soon as the officials saw it they jumpedto the conclusion that I was trying to smuggle intoBaghdad a case of whisky, and this they determined tofrustrate at all costs. I was told afterwards that theofficials turned a blind eye when the spirit smuggled inwas brandy, for that

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