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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, and but for theirpractical sympathy my Mission must have proved afailure. They meant me to do what I went to Baghdadto do, and they took care that I succeeded. When wetalked matters over they told me frankly that the BaghdadGovernment was not in a good temper over the dealing inantiquities which they were certain was going on, andthat rumours of my impending arrest were abroad.Captain Butterworth arrived in his ship the Comet the day after I returned from Babylon, and some of hiscrew told their friends in confidence how many boxes oftablets which he took to Basrah for me had been passedon to the British-India Mail Steamer as Ayub Khanspersonal baggage, and the incident became known inBaghdad. The story was much tasted in the bazars,and even the Turkish officials enjoyed it. It soon reachedthe ears of the authorities, and they promptly sent for thedealers who had sold me the tablets, and charged themwith breaking the law forbidding the dealing in antiquities, Tn lace p. j-:2, vol. i.
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Quarrel between the Government and the Dealers. 323 and threatenod them with legal proceedmgs. Thedealers admitted that they and other dealers had sold metablets, but swore that they were still in Baghdad, andstored in a house near the river, and that I was going totake them all with me when I left by the next steamer.They asked that the steamer might be watched, and mybaggage examined by the Customs of&cers when I wenton board, and renewed their promise to the authoritiesto buy from them all the tablets which they found in mybaggage. Meanwhile I had a few days to wait for the departure ofthe steamer, and I employed these in going about Bagh-dad and visiting the walls and the remains of many of theold buildings already enumerated (see pp. 194-5). Onemorning Captain Butterworth said that he had businesswhich would take him a few miles up the river, andsuggested that I should go with him, and visit the famousShiah sanctuary of Kazimen on the way. When ColonelTweedie heard of our pro

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