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During the period employed in deliberation, Nnmik Pasha instructed Samee* Effpndi to
The officer sweated wUh roe in tbo conduct of ,nfurm I y letter that lie had determined to
telcgrap'uio operation. resume operations for the construction oj the
telegraph, and to invito mo to depute English
Engineers nnd to form working patties for tins purpose: my roply addro-eed to His Exccllenoy
is embodied in a riospnich to tho India Office, of which copy is enclosed. Were tho materials
distributed nn operation to bo effected by Turkish ollioinls, I should bo prepared at once to
entor upon tho work ; but, nftcr duo reflection, Ilis Excellency has determined not to challenge
the disappointment of the Porte and of Her Majesty’s Government by exposing theso 6torcB
to loss in transit pending the issue of the expedition to Shcnafioh. °

Patod Bagdad, tho Sht August 1804.
From—Colonkl A. B. Kbuiu ll, c.n., Political Agent in Turkish Arabia,
To—Tho Undcr-Secrotary of Stato for India, India Office, London.
I hnvo tho honor to report, for the information of Sir Charles Wood, that additional
Ibid. materials for 40 miles of lino have boon lately
rocoivcd at Bussorah from Bombay, and that
the stores at my disposal aro now amply sufficient to comploto the Mesopotamian Telograph.
Already Namik Pasha has proposed to mo to resumo operations for this purpose; but as
His Excellency is preparing a military expedition to coerco Sheik lifoot/uk, tho powerful Chief
of the Khuzail tribe, located not far from Samaweh, tind as tho rebel Monte fig Chief, Munsoor,
who is still at largo may probably join the Khuzail, drawing with him tho disaffected portion of
bis own tribe, 1 do not. feci equally sanguine with Ilis Excellency of tranquillity being restored;
nor should I be justified, I believe in exposing my European employes under canvas, to the
malaria of the marshes, until materials shall have been distributed along the banks of the
Euphrates and until the wcathpr shall have become cooler, conditions both which will need
a full month to be realized. A biicf delay at this season, with tho view of certifying our
objects, must be comparatively immaterial; but did auy considerable portion of stores fall into
the bands of revolted Arabs, or become swamped in tho river, the work must necessarily bo
postponed for another year, and the ibsks of such a contingency would, of course, bo imminent
ponding the issue of tho plans now under prr.sooutiou by His Excellency.
No. 9, datoJ tho 8th March 1886.
From 7Colonel A. B. Kbmball, c.n., Her Majesty’s Coniul-Goncral at Baghdad,
To—Ton Hon'blb William Stuabt, Her-Majesty’s Cbargd d'Affcuros, Constantinople.
I havo again received letters from Sheik Moolluk of Khuzail asking my intercession in
his behalf with Namik Pasha; but yesterday
Political A., April 1866, Hoi. 11 6*117.
His Excellency spontaneously showed me the
reply he had alroady sent to this Chief requiring his unconditional surrender at Bagdad, where
on his making his submission in poison, he would be permitted to reside without molestation.
As tho occasion did not thu6 justify any allusion to the appeal he had made to myself, I simply
observed that Sheikh Moolluk might sooner or later give trouble to Government if driven to
desperation.
Sheik Munsoor of the Moniefig is located with his immediate adherents in the desert, about
six hours from Sukesh-Shiookh ; but unable, of course, to cope with Sheik Fuhud, tho
'Government nominee, be is powerless to create disturbances during that Chief’s tenure of tho
Sheikship.
Namik Pasha also informed me yesterday of the success of an expedition organized by
His Excellency from Sulimaniab and Kerkook to hunt ddwn the Hemawund freebooters,
who, to the scandal and discredit of the Turkish Authorities, have so Jong infested
Shahrizor. Intelligence from other sources ooufirms this issue to the extent of the surrender
of Fnkak-Kadir, one of the Hemawund Chiefs, and the capture of a number of his followers,
with their families and property ; but the results can hardly lie considered complete, if, as
my informant from the spot adds, one of the worst offenders, KaU-Ahmed, and smne seventy
horsemen are still at large to levy black mail on the villages and commit depredations upon
the settled inhabitants.
The difficulties of the expedition were of courso increased by the sympathy which the
Ham&wuud receive from the guaji-iudependeot tribes on the Turco-Porsian Frontier.

No. 16, dated tbo 6th April 1865.
From—Colo* bl A. B. Kbmball, c.b., Her Majoity’a Consul-General at Bagdad.
To—The 'Hon’blb William Stuabt, Her Majesty's Cbargd d’Affaires, Constantinople.
Sheik Fuhud has come to Bagdad to receive the insignia of investiture^ as Cbie* similar
Politic.! A, Juoe 1806, Mo.. «4i. appoiutmcaisfbut which were postponed in hi*