MOSUL and
NINEVEH
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Scene in Mosul.
Ttiii, most important feature
about Mosul, which is begin
ning to show the beneficial ef
fects of British control, is its
geographical situation. Mosul is the
meeting point of roads and caravan
routes from everywhere. They wind
in through the mountain passes and
over the rocky highland from Diar
bekr and Bitlis, across the great des
ert from Aleppo and over the sands
from Persia and Bagdad. Its very
: name, indeed, from the Arabic Al
! Mousil, “the place of connection.” tells
Its story. And as with roads and car
avan routes, so it will be, some time
again in the future in the matter of
railways, when the famous Bagdad
line is completed, says the Christian
Science Monitor. At present Ger
many’s great effort falls short of Mo
sul by many miles in the west and
in the south, and the “ramshackle
city,” as it has been irreverently
| called, still depends for its communi
i Rations on the road and the caravan
! route as it has done through the ages.
all the cities in the Turkish em
pire, as one writer has well said of it,
perhaps Mosul is the one that has
! been least touched by western civili
zation. Built on ground that once was
a suburb of Nineveh, it stands on the
; western bank of the Tigris, looking
across at the mounds which are all
that remain of the glories of the capi
tal of apcient Assyria. Nineveh has
a history that stretches throughout a
period nearly two thousand years
long, ending with the fall of the em
pire of Sennacherib about the year
600 B. C. From that time until Lay
ard unveiled the palaces of Ashur
banipal and Sennacherib, and un
earthed the literary chamber contain
ing the famous deluge tablet the ru
ins of Nineveh for 2,500 long years
have slept undisturbed. As for Mosul
| itself, it is particularly mentioned in
1 all history since the Arab conquest,
| a«d it is a checkered history indeed,
| f#?r it suffered pillage at the hands of
I Tamerlane, was besieged by Nadir
Shah, and endured a host of other vi
| cissitudes.
™ Mosul's Many Storks.
The old town, with its strangely
narrow streets, even for the east, is
surrounded by a half-ruined wall, built
in modern times as a protection
against the Shammar Arabs. Every
one remarks on the narrow streets of 1
Mosul, on its white, crumbling houses,
on the gypsum dust which falls con
stantly from the walls over everything,
and upon the storks. Indeed the
storks of Mosul are apparently its
most remarkable feature.
Discussing the matter one authority
tells how, in the cool of the evening,
the citizens of Mosul share their
housetops with innumerable storks,
who build their ragged nests on the
highest places “in utter disregard of
the law's of gravity.” Four great, pre
posterous specimens of the species
stood, in the early morning, on a wall
beside the room wdiere he was, he con
tinues, and he dimly realized that
tney were performing their morning
toilet. They took no notice of him.
loud noise like someone rattling I
a stick in a wooden bucket attracted
his attention. Then somebody else
with another bucket made a similar
noise in a different key, and he won
dered what in the world could they be
doing to the buckets. Then it dawned
upon him that half the population of
Mosul must be rattling buckets, for
the sound came from far and near,
faint or lodd according to distance,
and in a hundred different keys. Then
came a loud rattle close beside him.
“Within nine feet of him,” he says,
“stood a solemn stork, the toilet over,
his attitude of graceful balance on one'
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leg. uhe noise which I had, heard
from all over the city came straight
from his beak, the hollow upper and
lower halves of which he was striking
together with incredible rapidity.”
In the Bazaars and Square.
The bazaars of Mosul are not the
attractive places they might be ex
pected to be in a city of so much traf
fic. As William Warfield says in his
book, “The Gate of Asia.” they are
rarely roofed, and are furnished only
with the commonest wares. The shop
keepers are generally Christians, but
there are many Arabs. Garden prod
uce is often sold in the squares in open
markets, and at any time venders may
be seen talking in the streets, with
eggs or cucumbers in a basket, while
the mosque courtyards are favored
places for sweetmeat sellers, who dis
play “Turkish delight” on scalloped
copper trays. The bazaars radiate
from a picturesque a square quite near
the bridge, which is the center of the
town. To the south and southwest
are the drapers, shoemakers and har
ness makers; to the northwest the
greengrocers, while the potters and
dealers in hardware are to be found
in narrow stores opening on a street
that runs to the north.
As to the square itself, it is, of
course, one of the famous meeting
places of Mosul. Here the caravans
are gathered together, and their own
ers sit on the famous second-story
gallery of a coffee shop, while the
muleteers stroll about the crowded
place, or lounge among bales covered
with brown and white striped sack
cloth. These men are almost always
Kurds, those from the southern and
eastern tribes dressed in tunics, zou
ave jackets and turbans. They wear
baggy trousers reaching to their feet,
which are covered with brogues of
heavy hemp or rawhide.
Site of Ancient Nineveh.
For many people the ‘great attrac
tion of a visit to Mosul, the most in
accessible place in the sultan’s domin
ion, lies across the famous “bridge of
boats” at the other side of the Tigris,
where the huge, formless mounds, ris
ing up out of the sand, mark the site
of the ancient city of Nineveh. Any
attempt to tell the story of Nineveh
would involve a journey back to the
very beginning of things. Later As
syrian writers declare with confidence
that its story ran back as a matter of
course to the “creation of the world,”
but, as a matter of fact, the first firm
ground in the midst of tradition is
reached about the year 2200 B. C. That
wonderfully vivid period in Nineveh’s
history with which the world, espe
cially recently, has become familiar,
lies between the ninth and sixth cen
turies B. C. In this period the reign
of Sennacherib is of course by far
the most important.
Nineveh, however, depended entire
ly for its greatness and power upon
the conquering spirit of its rulers and
the military glory and powers of its
armies, and when these were ultimate
ly defeated the city fell, never to rise
again, and its very site was quickly
forgotten among the nations.
When Hubby Displayed Tact.
Wife—“Please match this piece of
silk for me before you come home.”
Husband—“At the counter where that
pretty little blonde serves? The one
with the soulful eyes and—” Wife—
“No. You’re too tired to shop for me
when your day’s work is done, dear.
On second thought I. won’t bother
you.”
Why Joe Left Home.
“Dear Joe—Come home. Forgive
and forget. I have destroyed the book
of "war reciDes.—Violet.”—Tit-Bita.
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