'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.' [‎279] (314/450)

AT KIFRI.
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in some difficulty or other: see what it is, and
whether an}^ one can help him. He is a poor, good
kind of fellow. Thermometer in my tent 90°.
Kifri *, March 2Sth.
I am just made the happiest man in the world by
your letter oi the 23rd, just after your gay party.
Our passage through the country was so meteoric,
that your Arab Avent hawking after me I know not
where, till at last Selim Aga picked him up some
where, and sent him on to me with a guard and a very
polite note^ and has thus added a very considerable
weight to the obligations with which he has already
cunihled me. I can't think of the right word in
o
English, and therefore gallicise or anglicise one.
My spirits move faster than my pen can follow. I
think, from the context of your note, that you must
have written me another of an earlier date, in answer
to mine from Bakooba. If so, Ismael Cossid has it,
and will have carried it direct to Willock, or else
some Arab may still be looking about for me in the
desert, or have been taken prisoner by Amanullah
Khan and his Koords. Indeed, we have glanced so
like wildfire o'er hill and o'er glen, that it would
have been difficult to have caught me after I left
* Kifri is situated just at the pass into Koordistan, and is
defended by a mud wall.