The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan

CHAPTER I

BEYOND THE PALE OF THE RAILWAY (ALEPPO AND URFA)

The belated Jinn who emerged out of Suleiman's Brass Bottle into twentieth-century London found there, amid much that was strange to him, some beings of his own kin. These were the railway locomotives, obviously Jann like himself, but yet more oppressively treated; bound by spells of appalling potency to labours m...