"سرد لإقامة في كردستان وفي موقع نينوى القديمة؛ مع مذكرات رحلة إلى بغداد عبر نهر دجلة ووصف زيارة إلى شيراز وبرسبوليس." [‎١‎٨‎٥] (٤٥٠/٢٢٠)

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HEAT OF THE WEATHER.
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chest, wliicli makes breathing an effort. How re
joiced I am that you have escaped all this! I calcu
late you must be at Bombay by this, and I trust in
God quite free of fever. A tolerable breeze from
the south-west has just sprung up. Inshallah ! it will
bring in the Francis Warden, which a merchantman
just arrived from Bombay says sailed seven days
before she did, with Dr. Jukes on board, who is
made political agent at Kishmeh, with a previous
mission to Teherann.
July 13.—A terrible night again; not a breath
stirring; one rises exhausted, unrefreshed, and
stupid. The weather is quite dreadful, and they say
we are not at the worst of it by any means. I never
felt any thing so oppressive in Bagdad as this heavy
damp heat, which is quite stifling. Thermometer
only 95°, but it is 91° all night, as 1 have an oppor
tunity of ascertaining; for sleep is quite out of the
question. Perspiration does not cool one, for there
is no evaporation, and every thing is wet with steam
as in a hot bath. Indeed I can compare this to
nothing but living in a Hamaum. ^ ou may imagine
the exhaustion that takes place. The hot sulphureous
blasts of a Bagdad Saum are quite refreshing
compared with it. There seems to be something in
the air too, peculiarly favourable to the development
of the prickly heat, which I never had so bad before.
I am one wound all over my body and limbs down