IOR/L/PS/20/144

Narrative report on surveys conducted in Mesopotamia [Iraq], North-West Persia [Iran] and Luristan [Lorestān]. The preface provides the following information:

'The object was to explore various tracts of little known country through which roads lead north from the head of the Persian Gulf to the Waliat of Van and North-West Persia near Urmia. To accomplish this, two routes through Luristan from the Tigris valley were travelled. In southern Kurdistan the roads from Kifri to Sulaimaniah, from there to Rawanduz, and Rawanduz to Amadiyeh, were gone over in Turkey, and Suj-Bulak to Karmanshah through Sakiz and Sihna in Persia. The country south of lake Van to Mosul was traversed in the routes Amadiyeh to Mosul, Mosul to Jazirah, Jazirah to Bashkala, Bashkala to Urmia, and Urmia to Suj Bulak through Ushnu.'

The report contains the following illustrations:

• Tak-i-Girra, looking east (f 42).
• Sketch showing the Town of Rawanduz [Rāwāndūz], (f 63).
• Sketch showing the bridge at Rawanduz. (f 66).
• Sketch showing Amadiyeh [Al 'Amādīyah] from the north-east, (f 76).
• Sketch showing the bridge of Mosul (f 85).

The report contains the following maps:

• Pass of Tak-i-Girra, on the Baghdad-Kermanshah Route, December 1889 (f 41).
• Country in vicinity of Rawanduz, May 1889 (f 64).
• Plateau of Amadiyeh and surrounding country, June 1888 (f 74).
• Plan of Mosul and surrounding country, corrected from Jones' survey, August 1889, (f 87).
• Country between Feishkhabur [Fīsh Khābūr] and Zakho, June 1888, (f 101).