Excerpt from Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia: Including a Residence Among the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes Before the Discovery of Nineveh
I have been asked, as one of the few surviving friends of Sir Henry Layard, to write something by way of preface to this work, which, recording his earliest travels, received his revision and last touches almost on his death-bed.
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