The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . ndred Camels, and theirHabits.—Aleppo and its People.—A Funeral.—Commerce.—AmericanMission.—A Beautiful Lady.—Charming Scenei-y.—The Flood.—RomanRoads.—Wild Pass of Bey Ian. — First View of the Sea, — End of theJourney. Before iis was a horseback ride of six hundred was a journey from Mosul to the sea. It was a tourthrough Western Kurdistan, through Central Mesopo-tamia, through Northern Syria, to Iskenderoon, on theMediterranean. En route^ we were to pass through theland of the Yezidis
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . ndred Camels, and theirHabits.—Aleppo and its People.—A Funeral.—Commerce.—AmericanMission.—A Beautiful Lady.—Charming Scenei-y.—The Flood.—RomanRoads.—Wild Pass of Bey Ian. — First View of the Sea, — End of theJourney. Before iis was a horseback ride of six hundred was a journey from Mosul to the sea. It was a tourthrough Western Kurdistan, through Central Mesopo-tamia, through Northern Syria, to Iskenderoon, on theMediterranean. En route^ we were to pass through theland of the Yezidis (the Devil-worshipers) ; through thecountry of the Nestorians, whose missions had blessedthe East; and throuo;h Christian villasres of the Greekand Latin churches. We were to linger at Uz, whereJob suffered and triumphed ; at Orfah, where Abrahamwas born; and at Padan-aram, where Jacob found hisbeautiful Rachel. There was a shorter route, west of the Tigris and di-rect to Damascus; but the certainty of being attackedl)y robbers on the desert was a sufficient reason why we. E r BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 395 should choose the longer way. We had discarded theclumsy hhajawah, and taken to the English saddle. Forour elect lady we had secured a ttiJcliteravan, an ideaof which is best expressed by the accora|)anying picture,which is true to life. As we had found it necessary tochange dragomans, we were fortunate enough to employKhidthurs, who was a member of the Protestant Chris-tian community of Mosul, who had been in the employ-ment of the English consul, and who had attended Doc-tor Leonard Bacon in his tour through was a Syrian, standing over six feet high, in-telligent and brave, an excellent cook, a polite and oblig-ing servant, and thoroughly honest. Thursday dawned without a cloud, and at 7 wewere at the river, waiting for the boat. An immensecrowd gathered to witness the departure of the Ameri-cans. As usual, the Orientals love of m
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