TCD MS 10516 folio 7 verso
[26th July 1916] [buf]faloes or glean a sustenance by the sale of reeds for the weaving of mats. The water of the Euphrates has undergone clarification since emerging from the Hamar Lake. Above the lake it was thick with sediment, a very finely divided and light silt giving the waters a dark brown colour and refusing to settle even after the flood waters had subsided into a more gentle stream. Now, as we steam below the lake, the water is comparatively clear; the brown mud has settled and the river reflects the blue gleam of transparent waters. Where the Tigris and the Euphrates unite their streams, the contrast between the rivers is most evident. The brown muddy waters of the Tigris join the clear blue Euphrates; for a short distance the two streams, in striking contrast, flow side by side. Soon the waters are mingled, and not