The Nestorians: Or, The Lost TribesJ. Murray, 1841 - 338 |
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... less than three hundred hamlets and villages . It is clothed with luxuriant verdure , fruitful fields , gar- dens , and vineyards , and irrigated by considerable streams of pure water from the adjacent mountains . The landscape is one ...
... less than three hundred hamlets and villages . It is clothed with luxuriant verdure , fruitful fields , gar- dens , and vineyards , and irrigated by considerable streams of pure water from the adjacent mountains . The landscape is one ...
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... less given to predatory habits . Their religion is professedly the faith of Islâm . The following dialogue , which I held with one of the nomadic Koords and a Nestorian bishop , may serve to illustrate the character of this sanguinary ...
... less given to predatory habits . Their religion is professedly the faith of Islâm . The following dialogue , which I held with one of the nomadic Koords and a Nestorian bishop , may serve to illustrate the character of this sanguinary ...
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... less than three days to Erzeroom , a distance by the winter route of at least 220 miles , and over a very mountainous road . On my route to Diarbékir , where I arrived on the 30th of May , I found great difficulty in crossing some of ...
... less than three days to Erzeroom , a distance by the winter route of at least 220 miles , and over a very mountainous road . On my route to Diarbékir , where I arrived on the 30th of May , I found great difficulty in crossing some of ...
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... less than twelve hundred villages in these mountains , I could not but regard the topic as one of great delicacy , especially as what we should say might be carried by the birds of the air to the 40 [ CHAP . IV . KOORDISH CHIEF .
... less than twelve hundred villages in these mountains , I could not but regard the topic as one of great delicacy , especially as what we should say might be carried by the birds of the air to the 40 [ CHAP . IV . KOORDISH CHIEF .
Strona 41
... by an appella- tion which signifies " half Mohammedan , " as if it was believed that they are less attached to their religion than the Turks . Before I took leave of the chief , he gave CHAP . IV . ] 41 KOORDISH CHIEF .
... by an appella- tion which signifies " half Mohammedan , " as if it was believed that they are less attached to their religion than the Turks . Before I took leave of the chief , he gave CHAP . IV . ] 41 KOORDISH CHIEF .
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