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Despatches from Colonel Herbert to H. M.’s Ambassador at the Porte.
Midhut Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. tells me it is contemplated to send four regiments to Riadh
from Mecca, under the command of one General Khalid Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , hut such a
brigade would meet insuperable difficulties on the route if the Arabs he firmly
determined to resist their advance, and the great popularity of Saood is likely to
ensure resolute opposition.
On the 1st instant His Excellency informed me that it was his intention to
go to Kateef early in the current month of Illoul, and that he would probably
touch, hut not land, at Bushire ; hut the time of his departure does not appear
to he yet determined.
No. 49, dated Bagdad, 26tli September 1871.
From—L ieutenant-Colonel C. Herbert, Consul-General, Bagdad,
To—His Excellency the Right Hon’ble Sir Henry Elliot, G.C.B., H. B. M/s
Ambassador, Constantinople.
In reference to my despatch No. 45, dated 30th ultimo, I have the honor
to forward herewith a memorandum, showing the deaths from cholera as reported
to this Office by the Quarantine Department since that date.
I have reason to believe that deaths have occurred in this city which are
not entered in this Statement, hut I am happy to say they are few and hitherto
the disease has not here assumed a virulent form.
I regret, however, to state that I yesterday received a report from Kerbulla,
dated 23rd instant, stating that the disease was raging there, and that 20 or 30
deaths occurred daily.
It is also said to he committing great ravages at Hit and A’anah on the
Euphrates.
Nothing further has been heard of it at Samawah, Dewaniyeh, and Hilla
since last I wrote.
It is reported to have disappeared at Mendeli on the 17th instant.
On the 2nd instant, His Excellency Midhut Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. informed me that he had
received a communication from Monsieur Paduani, confirming the report of the
disease that had appeared at Bana being the plague, hut not mentioning whether
or not it still existed there.
On the 18th instant His Excellency handed me the copy of a telegram he
had received from that officer, to the effect that, having visited the infected
country in the triangle formed by Senna, Savoj, Boolagh, and Bana, in company
with Monsieur Castaldi, Quarantine Inspector from Teheran, they had found the
disease to he the plague, and that they learned that it had existed since las
winter in Arhenoose, and had travelled thence in the direction of Mekri, E- ari b
Niyaz, and Kebrabad to the neighbourhood of Bana, extending as far as Savoj
Boolagh.
His Excellency stated that he had issued orders for the establishment of
strict quarantine along the frontier.
I telegraphed on the 18th instant to Captain Jones, Her Majesty s Consul-
General at Tahreez, begging him to inform me what information he possesse
with regard to this malady in the locality named, hut have as yet leceive no
answer, and imagine that, in common with the other inhabitants o am),
he has been forced to absent himself for a time.
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