CHAPTER Ⅰ．1907．Regimental Duty in India：A Journey across Persia：Return to India：To Persia on Duty 1
CHAPTER Ⅱ．1908．On the Future Oilfield：Surveys in Bakhtiari and Kuhgalu Hills and in Arabistan 20
CHAPTER Ⅲ．1909．The Discovery of Oil at Masjid-i-Sulaiman：Visit of Sir William Willcocks：I become Acting Consul at Mohammerah 81
CHAPTER Ⅳ．1910．Mohammerah：Oilfields：Surveys and Reports：Visit of Sir John Jackson 114
CHAPTER Ⅴ．January-August 1911．Railway Reconnaissance in Luristan 135
CHAPTER Ⅵ．August-December 1911．Railway Reconnaissance in Fars，and with Indian Troops from Bushire to Isfahan 176
CHAPTER Ⅶ．1912．From Isfahan to Ahwaz：Assistant to Sir Percy Cox：Arms-Traffic Problems at Muskat：Turco-Persian Frontier Questions 200
CHAPTER Ⅷ．January-August 1913．Home on leave to England：As a Stoker：To Constantinople and to Tehran via Tiflis and Baku 225
CHAPTER Ⅸ．September-December 1913．Back to Luristan 241
CHAPTER Ⅹ．December 1913-October 1914．The Demarcation of the Turco-Persian Frontier 267
CHAPTER Ⅺ．From Mount Ararat to Basrah via London and Archangel 299
INDEX 307