'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎171] (206/450)

CH. XIX.]
RIVER HIIUD.
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boat, which was a little way astern, to come up with
our breakfast. We were off again by eight, and at
eleven passed Jebeelo, a line grove of trees on the
right bank.
At twenty minutes past one we were going S. 20
W. On the left was Habsia, a small winding canal
which goes to the river Hhud. Boats sometimes
pass through it. We passed an immense marsh
(juite full of water on the right, and soon after a
camp of Albu Mohammed Arabs on the left bank,
all of mat-huts, and many little canoes were laid up
before it
At twenty minutes to two, going S. 70 E., we
passed Mohammed Abu] Hassan, a ziaret on the
right bank, with a long grove of poplar, willow,
pomegranate and date-trees.
At half past two we reached the Hhud, a branch
of the Tigris going off east to the Kerb ha and to
Howieza. A boat may now go to the Kerhha in five
or six hours* through A1 Hhud, which is very deep,
and as broad as the main stream of the Tigris. I
ascertained that the water runs from the Tigris into
it; an important fact, as the Hhud has been supposed
by some to come into the Tigris. Hence the Tigris is
south. There was a wet marsh extending both the
sides of the river all the way to Koorna.
For the last hour or two we have just been drop-
* My pilot has himself gone through the Hhud into the
Kerhha.