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Donald Maxwell. A Dweller in Mesopotamia
A Dweller in Mesopotamia
Table of Contents
PLATES IN COLOUR AND MONOCHROME
LIST OF LINE SKETCHES
I
THE FIERY FURNACE
II
THE VENICE OF THE EAST
THE VENICE OF THE EAST
III
SINBAD THE SOLDIER
SINBAD THE SOLDIER
IV
THE WISE MEN FROM THE WEST
THE WISE MEN FROM THE WEST
V
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
VI
ARABIAN NIGHTS IN 1919
ARABIAN NIGHTS IN 1919
VII
IN OLD BAGHDAD
IN OLD BAGHDAD
VIII
PARADISE LOST
PARADISE LOST
IX
THE DESERT OF THE FLAMING SWORD
THE DESERT OF THE FLAMING SWORD
X
THE KINGS OF THE EAST
THE KINGS OF THE EAST
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Donald Maxwell
Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
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When I had fallen several times and covered myself with a mixture that looked like grey condensed milk mixed with butter and felt like a poultice, I got my second wind. I was still recognizable as a human being. All fear of making myself in a worse mess had vanished, and thus, freed from nervousness, I began to get quite daring. The Chief saw in me the making of a first-class pipe walker, and prophesied that I should be able to attain the speed of three miles an hour. I still fell off, however, enough not to get a swelled head on the subject.
After what to me seemed miles, and which as a matter of fact must have been about five hundred yards, we emerged from the lake region and were able to find a track along the ground. It skirted a railway line and led toward some buildings and machinery. A dull glow began to illuminate the scene and show up our path.
