Mss Eur F112/396/1

Narrative report on surveys conducted in Mesopotamia [Iraq], north-west Persia [Iran] and Luristan [Lorestan]. 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 [Orumiyeh]. To accomplish this, two routes through Luristan from the Tigris valley were travelled. In southern Kurdistan the roads from Kifri to Sulaimaniah [As Sulaymaniyah], from there to Rawanduz [Ruwandiz], and Rawanduz to Amadiyeh [Al ‘Amadiyah], were gone over in Turkey, and Suj-Bulak [Mahabad] to Karmanshah [Kermanshah] through Sakiz [Saqqez] and Sihna [Sanandaj] in Persia. The country south of lake Van to Mosul was traversed in the routes Amadiyeh to Mosul, Mosul to Jazirah [Al Jazirah], Jazirah to Bashkala [Başkale], Bashkala to Urmia, and Urmia to Suj Bulak through Ushnu [Oshnaviyeh].’

The report contains the following illustrations:

• Tak-i-Girra, looking east (f 42).
• Sketch showing the town of Rawanduz (f 63)
• Sketch showing the bridge at Rawanduz (f 66)
• Sketch showing Amadiyeh 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’s survey, August 1889 (f 87)
• Country between Feishkhabur [Fish Khabur] and Zakho, June 1888 (f 101).