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This account written by G.E. Hubbard, secretary of the delimitation commission is of his journey in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Kurdistan from Nov. 1913 to Apr 1914 It is an account written by an astute political mind and contains much information about the political history of this volatile area. Like other travelogues he peppers his account with amusing anecdotes and vistas of the customs and folklore of the areas he travels through. Starting from Mohommera just off the Persian gulf and near Basra, the journey makes way northward towards the Black and the Caspian Sea. Passing through Bagdad, Kasr-I-Sherin past the lake of Urmia he goes east to the Caspian sea and than returning and going west to the Black sea. The book has a chapter on the history, customs and manner of the Kurds.