Home Life--Anderoon, women's quarters--Jealousy in the anderoon--Anderoon of Khan Baba Khan--Two days in an anderoon--H.R.H. Princess Hamadane Sultane--Visit to the anderoon of H.R.H. the Zil-es-Sultan 84 Chapter VIII More About Persian Women Costumes--Wedding festivities--Wedding dinner--Kindness of Persian husbands--Story of brutality--Divorce--Aids to beauty--Degradation and cruelty of women 95 Chapter IX Some Points in the Moslem Faith Fasts and feasts--Seyyids, Dervishes, Mullahs--Legends of the drowning mullah, and the yard-square hole 106 Chapter X Other Religious Sects The Bab and Babism--Short sketch of life of the Bab--His imprisonment and execution--Parsees, or Zoroastrians--Persecutions of Parsees in seventh century--Sacred writings of Parsees, Zendavesta--Fire-worshipping--Fire temples--Holy fire--Parsee wedding--Costume of women--Death customs--Burial customs 116 Chapter XI Desert Delights Songs of the desert--Sunsets, sunrises, mirages--Illness in the desert--Mehman khanehs, caravanserais--Chappa khanehs--Lost in the desert--Its cruelties and sadness 130 Chapter XII Persian Medical Missions The need of them--Work in Isphahan--The "little devil" transformed into a boy--Amputation--Brothers in adversity--H.R.H. Zil-es-Sultan as a patient--Fanaticism overcome 140 Chapter XIII Pioneer Medical Mission Work in Kerman Waiting for drugs and instruments--Native assistant proves a broken reed--First operation in Kerman--An anxious moment--Success--Doctrine of "savab" convenient to the Moslem--Fanaticism tempered with prudence--Opium slaves--Persian therapeutics--Persian quacks and their methods--Sure way of curing cancer--Hysteria 151 Chapter XIV Medical Mission Work in Yezd A hospital--A friendly governor--A suspicious case--Superstition--The opium habit--A case of cataract--We return to England 164 Part II Chapter I The City of Nineveh The fast of Jonah--The bridge of boats--Traditions as to ancient history of Mosul--Elkos, birthplace of Nahum the prophet--Shurgat--Climate of Mosul--Cultivation and industries--Importance of Mosul 173 Chapter II The People of Mosul Population--Moslems--Christians--Chaldeans--Nestorians--Jacobites --Arabs--Kurds--Jews--Yezidees--Recreations--Warfare of the slingers--Hammam Ali--The recreation ground of Mosul men and women 186 Chapter III The River Tigris