| The Golden Towers of Khadamain | Frontispiece |
| Abadan, Persia, the Oil Quays | 4 |
| H.M.S. MANTIS, one of the Monitors on the Tigris | 12 |
| Hospital Hulks at Basra | 18 |
| "The Solemn Palms were ranged above, unwoo'd of summer wind" | 22 |
| The House of Sinbad the Sailor, Basra | 24 |
| A Bend in "the Narrows" of the Tigris | 30 |
| A Marsh Arabs' Reed Village | 34 |
| Mud Houses on the Tigris | 40 |
| A Mahaila of the Inland Water Transport | 42 |
| Ezra's Tomb | 44 |
| On the Euphrates, Early Morning | 52 |
| Babylon, the Excavations at El-Kasr | 56 |
| An Old World Craft: a type of boat |
| unchanged since the days of Sinbad | 60 |
| Bellams under Sail | 62 |
| Babylon the Great is Fallen, is Fallen | 64 |
| A Street in Khadamain | 70 |
| Moonlight, Baghdad | 72 |
| A Nocturne of Baghdad | 74 |
| Mahaila and Marsh Arab's Bellam | 80 |
| A Moonlight Fantasy: Kut, from the ruins of the Licquorice Factory | 94 |
| Dawn at Amara | 100 |
| A Backwater in Eden | 102 |
| Puffing Billy on the Tigris | 106 |
| Sunset on the Tigris | 112 |
| Sheik Saad and the Persian Mountains | 114 |
| Hit, known to the Arabs as the Mouth of Hell | 116 |
| A British Cruiser in the Persian Gulf | 122 |
