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AFLOAT 147
crowned by the massive black walls of Diarbekr,
and fringed by a swampy tract of willow gardens,
rose up sharply above the mud flats. As we were
carried along the winding course of the sluggish river
a higher mud bank shut it altogether from our view,
and I felt we had severed that link with the world
which one feels so strongly on arriving in any town
. of a distant uncivilised land, where a European mail
I occasionally arrives and a telegraph wire eliminates
the isolation of its natural position.
We were drifting into an unknown world at the
mercy of these unknown Kurds. We were alone
with the birds and the mud banks and the rippling
. waters.
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