ABSTRACT
It was now getting extremely hot in Mosul and Dr Sandwith and Cooper were quite incapacitated by the heat and came down with fever. They were entertained by a large number of guests who came through the town and visited Layard and his party, two married couples on their way to Baghdad, a military man named Walpole who later wrote an account of his visit, a priest called Malan who had artistic abilities and made a number of drawings of Layard and the excavations, and a further priest, Mr Bowen, who was on a tour of inspection to the churches of the East. None of them created any problems, it seems, and Layard enjoyed playing host, but the doctor and Cooper became weaker and it became necessary to send them up into the cooler mountains. Layard and Hormuzd were also beginning to suffer from malaria again, but luckily not at the same time, so when one was down, the other could work. It could not last.
