"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." [‎٢‎٧‎٥] (٤٧٤/٤١٨)

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September 20^.—Several persons who were taken
ill yesterday after Asser, or afternoon prayer, have
recovered, and the deaths are said greatly to have
diminished since that time. I hear of no great mor
tality during the night that is past. Please God
the disease has attained its crisis. To-day the
Moullahs ordered all the wine in the town to he
poured out: they have even seized the wine belong
ing to the Armenians, and broken all the jars.
They have also turned the dancers and singers out of
the town.
" When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would he;
When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he."
As some of Major Litchfield's people were going
into the town to-day, they met nine funerals in the
streets, which are quite abandoned.
September 21^.—The disorder is still said not to
be quite so bad as on the 18th and 19th. There
were four or five deaths in the night, which is all
that I have been able to ascertain of known people.
There may have been some others of ordinary people.
One man was taken ill yesterday at Asser, and lin
gered through the night; he expiied this morning.
This is the longest period that has yet elapsed
between a person being attacked and his death.
Yesterday afternoon a Seyid died in the court o^
the Vekil's mosque. He was a netive of Yezd, and
seemingly had no friends here. His body wa S at.ll
lying in "the plaee where he expired this morning.
No one had had the charity to have him hurled.
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