ABSTRACT
IN leaving Bagdad, as we had done, without paying a farewell visit to the Valy, we had committed a breach of etiquette, and in travelling without a buyuruldi a breach of the law, which might bring us into trouble with the Turkish authorities, whenever we came again under their jurisdiction. So we were rather anxious about the reception our old friend Huseyn might be disposed to give us, now that we were back at Deyr. We had learnt from the Mollah, in the course of our ride, some details of the little comedy, which had been played us there two months before, and were prepared for finding ourselves in the Pasha's bad books.
