CONTENTS
1. LAND OF ETERNAL CONFLICT / II
2, DIWANIYAH / 24
3. NORTHWARD TO THE MOUNTAINS / 38
4. THE ROAD / 49
5. I CAMP ON SPILIK / 60
6. THE BRIGAND, HAMADA CHIN / 70
7. GALI ALI BEG / 79
8. FORTS ON THE FRONTIER / 91
9. MEN OF THE MIDDLE EAST / 104
I0. THE DEPTHS OF THE CANYON / 117
11. ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK / 130
12. A CHRISTMAS EVE IN KURDISTAN / 145
13. THE SNOWS MELT / 161
14. THE CAVE OF KOSPYSPEE / 173
15. THE TREASURE-VAULT OF THE ANCIENT KINGS / 182
16. THE CONQUEST OF GALI AL1 BEG / 192
17. THE BLOOD-FEUD OF ROWANDUZ / 209
18. THE FATE OF A KURDISH CHIEFTAIN / 222
19. THE ASSYRIANS / 240
20. THE GOAL ATTAINED / 252
ILLUSTRATIONS
I. IN THE ROWANDUZ GORGE facing / 32
Photograph Captain H. M. Burton
2. DIWANIYAH / 33
3. THE BLIND BEGGAR ON THE KIRKUK ROAD / 48
4. AN ALTUN KEUPRI FISH / 48
5. ARBIL / 49
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
6. A KURDISH PLOUGHMAN 64
7. THE NEW ROAD UP SPILIK PASS 65
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
8. SPILIK PASS POLICEMAN, GUERGES AND HASSAN / 80
9. MULE CARAVAN TRANSPORTING `JUSS' TO KAN1 RASH / 80
10. THE CARAVAN TRACK IN THE ROWANDUZ GORGE / 81
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
11. ROWANDUZ FROM THE AIR / 96
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
12. KURDISH VILLAGERS / 97
13. THE ALANA SU JOINS THE ROWANDUZ RIVER / 112
Photograph: 5. D. Kidd
14. BERSERINI GORGE / 113
Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton
15. COOLIES TAKING THEIR MIDDAY REST, ASLEEP ON
THE ROCK / 128
16. SAYED HEUSNI EFFEND1 THIRD FROM THE RIGHT)
AND SHABANAS OF SHAIKH SAYED TAHA / 129
Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton
17. SHAIKH MAHMUD / 144
18, THE OLD BERSERINI BRIDGE / 145
ILLUSTRATIONS
19. TREWHELLA WINCH OPERATORS CONTROLLING
BRIDGE ERECTION facing / 160
20. HALF-TUNNELLED ROADWAY 1N THE ROWANDUZ GORGE / 161
Photograph: Pilot-Officer W. I. Scott, R.A.F.
21. A DARING AIR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BALKIAN GORGE / 176
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
22. THE BALKIAN BRIDGE / 177
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
23. THE MAIN BRIDGE OVER THE ROWANDUZ RIVER / 192
24. ISMAIL BEG ON THE KURDISH BRIDGE AT ROWANDUZ / 193
Photograph: Captain H. M. Burton
25. SHAIKH AHMAD OF BARZAN WITH HIS CHIEFTAINS / 208
Photograph: Captain C. E. Littledale
26. ASSYRIAN CHILDREN / 208
27. THE ROAD NEAR RAYAT / 209
Photograph: F. D. Kidd
28. THE TOWN OF ROWANDUZ / 209
Royal Air Force Official Photograph—Crown Copyright Reserved
MAPS
IRAQ AND THE ROAD THROUGH KURDISTAN at the end of the book
THE ROWANDUZ ROAD at the end of the book | 
