'Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates by British Merchant-Vessels' [‎111v] (11/14)

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Inclosure 5.
Takkerwood Been to Consul
(Translation.) ^shSbl^m® 1298 {February 13, 1881).
Sir, . „ +v»cit if Vine; been brought to my notice that the
I HAVE the honour to inform you that it towing barges in the course
o^hel^rwi^tio^'h^we^n 3 Ba^ad Td IZl and that the steamer " Khalifa " on h
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Foreign Minister at Constantinople under date and Co. of
to the effect that although the employmcn j . , , t Excellency recom-
barges and other boats for burden were
mended that, as a temporary measure and until the famine pre; aUing m r o
of the vilayet had subsided, no oppositions were to be offered to bar es boats^ g
towed by them, with a view that larger supplies of grain a p , • steamers
thither by these steamers, and that as soon as the famine had f ^idedtheirs^amers
were lo revert to their former practice of navigating singly. Bu '? fact^he said
God—no trace of famine and scarcity is remaining, and as a matter ot fact ™
Company has no right or privilege to run on the River Tigris more than two steamers,
I therefore request that the Company may be given the required 'nfojmat.on that no
barges, &c., should hereafter be tied to the steamers, and that T may be acquainted
therewith. (Signed) TAKKERWOOD DEEN.