Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 138
ivided into septs, and each sept is composed ofcertain families. Thus Suttum was a Shammar, of the branch calledthe Boraij, and of the family of Saadi, besides being a member of a pe-culiar division of the great tribe called the Khorusseh. IV.] SHEIKH SUTTUM. 85 him a slight lameness in his gait.… … Sheikh Suttum. penetrate everything within its ken. His dark hair was plattedinto many long tails ; his beard, like that of the Arabs in ge-neral, was scanty. He wore the usual Arab shirt, and overit a cloak of blue cloth trimmed with red silk and lined withfur, a present from some pasha as he…
