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 243
placed me under the protection of his cousin,Mullah Agha, who was ordered to escort me to the borders 190 .^7.^•A■ / v;// axd n.in j 7.().\. [Chap. of the pashalir of Hakkiari, now orcupiod by the Turkislitroops. Our guiile was a tall, sinewy mountaineer, dressedin the many-coloured loose… … A Kurd. and all were on foot, the precipitous and rocky pathways ofthe mountains being scarcely practicable for horses, whichare rarely kept but by the chiefs. They carried their longrifles across their shoulders, and enormous daggers in theirgirdles. We left Heren early on the morning of the 19th,…
