THERE is but a short distance from Kurnah at the junction of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and beyond which the united streams are termed the Shat al Arab, or River of the Arabs, to Bassora, and the paddles of the steamer soon annihilated the inter...
THERE is but a short distance from Kurnah at the junction of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and beyond which the united streams are termed the Shat al Arab, or River of the Arabs, to Bassora, and the paddles of the steamer soon annihilated the interval that lay between us and the renowned seaport of the Khalifs. We anchored off the city on the 19th of June, and celebrated the safe descent of the river, and gratified our feelings of loyalty and attachment for the king under whose patronage the enterprise was being carried on, by firing a number of guns equivalent to the age of a now regretted monarch.