Despite this journey being from Bombay to Constantinople, after stopping off at Muscat most of the narrative is about the time spent in Baghdad and the subsequent overland voyage to Aleppo, with comments made on the Bedouins and their 'rascally' nature.

First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm); 15 illustrated plates including frontispiece, three of which steel engravings; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, a little faded, a very good copy: 634pp.