FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD AND BABYLON _BOOKS BY J. A. ZAHM_ (H. J. MOZANS) FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD AND BABYLON THE QUEST OF EL DORADO THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA’S SOUTHLAND UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON WOMAN IN SCIENCE GREAT INSPIRERS FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD _AND_ BABYLON BY THE REV. J. A. ZAHM, C.S.C., PH.D., LL.D. (H. J. MOZANS) MEMBER OF THE AUTHORS’ CLUB, LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHYSIQUE, THE ARCADIA OF ROME, AND OTHER LEARNED SOCIETIES; AUTHOR OF “UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA,” “ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON,” “THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA’S SOUTHLAND,” ETC. [Illustration] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK :: LONDON :: MCMXXII COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE BEST OF FRIENDS EVER LOYAL AND INSPIRING MR. AND MRS. CHARLES M. SCHWAB IN WHOSE HOSPITABLE HOME EVERY BOOK I HAVE WRITTEN DURING THE LAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAS HAD EITHER ITS INCEPTION OR ITS COMPLETION THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED PARAPHRASE OF VERSES FROM SHAIKH SADI BY EDWIN ARNOLD _In many lands I have wandered, and_ _wondered, and listened, and seen;_ _And many my friends and companions,_ _and teachers and lovers have been._ _And nowhere a corner was there but I_ _gathered up pleasure and gain;_ _From a hundred gardens the rose-blooms,_ _from a thousand granaries grain;_ _And I said to my soul in secret, “Oh_ _thou, who from journeys art come!_ _It is meet we should bear some token of_ _love to the stayers at home;_ _For where is the traveller brings not from_ _Nile the sweet green reed,_ _Or Kashmiri silk, or musk-bags, or coral,_ _or cardamum seed?”_ _I was loath from all that Pleasaunce of_ _the Sun and his words and ways,_ _To come to my country giftless, and showing_ _no fruit of my days:_ _But, if my hands were empty of honey,_ _and pearls and gold,_ _There were treasures far sweeter than_ _honey, and marvellous things to be told._