Nineveh and Babylon - a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1882) (14580666968)

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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ad now congre-gated to the north of the Sinjar previous to their summermigration to the pastures of the Khabour. Tlieir mares,camels, and sheep came to Sayhel for water, and during thewhole day there was one endless line of animals passing toand fro before our encampment. I sat watching them frommy tent. As each mare and horse stopped to drink at thetroubled stream, Suttum named its owner and its breed, anddescribed its exploits. The mares were generally followed VI.) VISIT OF FERHAN. 159 by two or three colts, who are suffered, even in their thirdyear, to run loose after their dams, and to gambol unre-strained over the plain. It is to their perfect freedom whilstyoung that the horses of the desert owe their speed and thesuppleness of their limbs. In the evening, as I was seated before my tent, I observeda large party of horsemen and riders on delouls approachingour encampment. They stopped at the entrance of the largepaviUon reserved for guests, and picketing their mares, and ^^V»^^
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Ai lb Cam-ls turning loose their dromedaries adorned with gay trappings,seated themselves on the carpets. The chiefs were our oldfriends, Mohammed Emin and Ferhan, the great ShammarSheikh. We cordially embraced after the Bedouin fashion.I had not seen Ferhan since the treacherous murder of hisfather by Nejib Pasha of Baghdad,* to which he alluded * Kineveh and its Remains, p. 78. i6o NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. with touching expressions of grief, bewailing his own incom-petency to fill Sofuks place, and to govern the dividedtribe. He was now on his way with the Jebour Sheikh to re-cover, if possible, the government treasure, plundered by theHamoud, for which, as head of the Shammar, he was heldresponsible by the Porte. After they had eaten of the feastwe were able to prepare for them, they departed about sun-set for the tents of the Jebours. On the 4th of May we made a short days journey of fivehours to a beautiful stream issuing from the Sinjar hill, be-neath the village of Khersa. L