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Updated: June 13, 2025
This savant, learned in Oriental matters, had by the Emperor's orders received his excellency on the frontiers of France, in company with M. Outrey, vice-consul of France at Bagdad. Later his excellency had a second audience, which took place in state at the palace of Saint-Cloud.
He had provided all things to take a journey to Bagdad, and was on the point of setting out, when death" She had not power to finish; the lively remembrance of the loss of her husband would not permit her to say more, and drew from her a shower of tears. Ganem could not see his mother so sensibly affected, without being equally so himself.
Before I left the city I went into a bagnio, where I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a calender's robe. I passed through many countries without making myself known; at last I resolved to visit Bagdad, in hopes of meeting with the Commander of the Faithful, to move his compassion by relating to him my unfortunate adventures.
"It was when I left Bagdad, seven years ago," answered the pretended merchant. "Abul Hassan, is that so?" The boy who acted the part of Abul said that it was. "Let the olive merchants be brought into court," commanded the pretended Cadi. The boys who were taking the parts of olive merchants now came forward. "Tell me," said the feigned Cadi, "how long is it possible to keep olives?"
In that year the dealers in jewels were setting prices upon diamonds from Golconda, rubies and lapis lazuli from Badakhshan, and pearls from the fisheries of Ceylon; and the silk merchants were stacking up bales of silk and muslin and brocade from Bagdad and Yezd and Malabar and China.
Ali Cogia thanked his friend and carried the jar into the warehouse, placing it in the farthest and darkest corner where it would not be in the way. Soon after he set out upon his journey to Mecca. When Ali Cogia left Bagdad he had no thought but that he would return in a year's time at latest. He made the journey safely, in company with a number of other pilgrims.
He belonged to Bagdad, and joined my ship at Balsora, but by mischance he was left behind upon a desert island where we had landed to fill up our water-casks, and it was not until four hours later that he was missed. By that time the wind had freshened, and it was impossible to put back for him." "You suppose him to have perished then?" said I. "Alas! yes," he answered. "Why, captain!"
The new city had as many as six hundred thousand inhabitants. Under the Parthians Ctesiphon succeeded to Seleucia, to be replaced in its turn by Bagdad, the Arab metropolis of the caliphs.
In the second category military adventurers fall, for example, the Turkish praetorians who made and unmade not less than four caliphs at Bagdad in the ninth century, and that bold condottiere, Ahmed ibn Tulun, who captured a throne at Cairo. Even Christian emperors availed themselves of these stout fighters.
"The Anatolian section of the Bagdad Railway cannot be described as properly paying its way. "There are other once-flourishing parts of the peninsula," he continues, "which the Bagdad Railway does not touch at all" the Vilayet of Sivas and the other Armenian provinces.
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