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The Treasure Of The Tigris

The Treasure Of The Tigris

by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman

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Author
Mockler-Ferryman, A. F. (Augustus Ferryman), 1856-1930
Title
The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia
Credits
Produced by Delphine Lettau, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Iraq -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
35615
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35615
Release Date
March 20, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE TREASURE OF THE TIGRIS
  2. 2.A TALE OF MESOPOTAMIA — BY LIEUT.-COLONEL A. F. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN — AUTHOR OF "LIFE STORY OF A TIGER" "HEMMED IN" ETC. — WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY ALLAN STEWART — A. & C. BLACK LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1 — PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN — First published in 1908 — "I BALANCED IT EXACTLY, AND SLOWLY AND STEADILY DREW IT UP"
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR — By ALLAN STEWART
  5. 5.THE TREASURE OF THE TIGRIS
  6. 6.CHAPTER I. — INSTRUCTIONS.
  7. 7.CHAPTER II. — ACROSS MESOPOTAMIA.
  8. 8.CHAPTER III. — INTO THE DESERT.
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — GUESTS OF THE AENIZA. — "THAT THIS WAS THE SHEIK HIMSELF WE INSTANTLY REALISED"
  10. 10.CHAPTER V. — RAIDERS.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — THE SHEIK'S STORY.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — THE FIRE OF THE GODS.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — RASPUL, THE SEER.
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — IN THE TEMPLE OF SOPHANA. — "HE PROSTRATED HIMSELF BEFORE THE GODDESS, AND BESOUGHT HER TO GIVE HEAT TO THE FIRE"
  15. 15.CHAPTER X. — A DASH FOR FREEDOM.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — ONLY HALF A CAPTURE.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — RIVAL DOCTORS. — "'BY THE WILL OF ALLAH,' HE SAID, 'THE CHILD IS SICK'"
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — WAR'S ALARM.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — THE BURST OF THE STORM.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — FATE.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — RESCUE.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT. — "WHEN NEXT I AWOKE EDWARDS WAS SITTING BY MY SIDE." — "DAYLIGHT SHOWED US, IN THE FAR DISTANCE, THE MOUND OF THE BIRS NIMROUD"
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — TRUE FRIENDSHIP.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — IN CLOVER.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — RE-UNION.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — A DESPERATE PLUNGE.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — BROTHERS AND CONSPIRATORS.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — DAUD'S ADVENTURES.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — THE DEVIL'S WELL.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — FOR DEAR LIFE.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — A HAVEN OF REST.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — VISITORS. — "WE COULD SEE BELOW US ... THE FIGURE OF A MAN LYING ACROSS THE GUNWALE"
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. — MYSTERIES, SOLVED AND UNSOLVED.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. — A PROPHECY FULFILLED. — "THE TWO OF THEM AS PROUD AS PEACOCKS"

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