Excerpt from Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &C, Vol. 1 of 2: Including an Account of Parts of Those Countries Hitherto Unvisited by Europeans, With Sketches of the Character and Manners of the Koordish and Arab Tribes Visit to the Pashah - his Appearance. - Murderous Passages. The Kiayah and his officers - Glamour of Servants for Presents. - The Pashah's Credulity regarding the Transmutation of Metals. - An adroit Adept and successful Experiment - Dervishes their three Classes - the Collegiate - the Endemic - the Peripatetic. - Story of maamoon-ul-mustapha. - Visit to the invulnerable Dervishes - their Tricks and Impositions. - Visit to the Shrine of Sheikh Abdul Kader. The Alsatia of Baghdad. - The Nuqeeb - and Shrine. - The Roman Catholic Church and Vicar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.