"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٦‎١‎٧] (١٧٨٢/١٧٧٢)

i?e.
1617
Sr^h^r 09 t0 Bir " a ' WWch !S tw0 ^ an halfs
the walUf the towL^nne^thTXerTfEn^ and t0
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hoate ffo^alonp fm- if 'f T n" 6 , ^'^r. " « not good that one
g lone, ±01 it it should chance fo breake, you should have mnoh
a doe to saue your goods from the Arabians, which be alwayls these
ntoetarfe that V™ k" 4116 n ' S l ht " : ' ,0, "' boates be made " f ^t. « ^
III -ii 7 ® epe g00d watch * Vor the Arabians that bee
affainsL^thflTn * mmmin S and /teale your goods and flee away,
agamst which a gunne is very good, for they doe feare it verv much
In the river of Euphrates from Birra to Felugia there be certaine places
where you pay custome, so many Medines for a some or Camels lading,
and certanie raysons and sope, which is for the sonnes of § Aborise
\\hich is Lord of the Arabians and all that great desert, and hath some
villages upon the river Felugia where you unlade your goods which
a dav a 18 a Vllla ^ e 5 from whence you goe to Babylon in
Babylon is a towne not very great but very populous, and of great
traffike of strangers, for that is the way to Persia, Turkia and Arabia :
and trom thence doe goe Carovans for these and other places. Here
are great store of victuals, which come from Armenia downe the riuer of
ygns. They are brought vpon raftes made of goates skiunes blowne
tull ot winde and bordes layde vpon them : and thereupon they lade
imi goods which are brought downe to Babylon, which being discharged
ihey open their skinnes, and carry them backe by Camels, to seme
another time. Babylon in times past did belong to the kingdome of
Persia, but nowe is subject to the Turke. Over against Babylon there
is a very faire village from whence you passe to Babylon upon a long-
bridge made of boats, and tyed to a great chaine of yron, which is made
fast on either side of riuer. When any boates are to passe up or downe
the riuer, they take away certaine of the boates until they be past.
The 11 Tower of Babel is built on this side the riuer Tygris. towards
Arabia from the towne about seuen or eight miles, which tower is
ininated on all sides, and with the fall thereof hath made as it were a
little mountaine, so that it hath no shape at all : it was made of brickes
dried in the sonne, and certaine canes and leaues of the palme tree laved
betwixt the brickes. There is no entrance to be seene to goe into it, * It
doth stand upon a great plaine betwixt the rivers of Euphrates and
Tygris.
* Doubtless Birijik.
t Meaning Baghdad, as will appear further on.
j Fallujah.
§ Evidently Abu Risb.
|| The reference is clearly to 'Akr Quf.
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