"سرد لرحلة إلى موقع مدينة بابل في ١٨١١، طُبعت الآن لأول مرة: مذكرات على الأطلال؛ مع نقوش من الخرائط المدبئية للمؤلف: ملاحظات على طبوغرافية بابل القديمة،بقلم الرائد رينيل؛ في إشارة إلى المذكرات: مذكرات ثانية على الأطلال؛ في إشارة إلى ملاحظات الرائد رينيل: مع سرد لرحلة إلى برسبوليس: طُبعت الآن لأول مرة، مع كتابات مسمارية نسخت في برسبوليس ولم تُنشر من قبل: كتبها الراحل كلوديوس جيمس ريتش، المحترم، المقيم البريطاني السابق لشركة الهند الشرقية في بغداد. حررته أرملته." [‎٢‎٠‎٤] (٤٧٤/٣٠٢)

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which seemed quite to invigorate my
Tchahkoota, which means shallow well, can turn
out upon necessity about 800 musketeers. The
people are Sunnis, of the Maleki and Shafei sects.
We left Tchahkoota at half-past eight in the
evening, and proceeded in a northerly direction, over
broken ground, which was sometimes rocky, and
sometimes deep sand, and over which were sprinkled
many large bushes, affording, we were told, shelter to
hares and antelopes. The night was extremely hot,
and the ground seemed to send up quite a reflection
of heat.
We stopped about fifty minutes for refreshments,
and at two o'clock in the morning we arrived at
Burauzgoon, passing first along gardens and planta
tions of date-trees, tobacco, &c.,for about two miles.
We went to the new caravanserai, which is not yet
finished, but affords tolerable accommodation under
the gateway. I was much flagged and exhausted by
the heat of the weather, and I had besides the
luxury of a stumbling mule. I dislike night-
marches very much; they completely reverse all
one's habits.
July —Selim Aga, the governor of Burauz
goon, sent us a present of a very fine mountain goat,
the chord of whose horns measured about two feet—
the colour was like that of the antelope, but the
flesh tasted more like beef than antelope. We were
attended here by a Gebr, or fire-worshipper, whose