Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . ^ the Kurds, and they left dissatisfied. In the 3ear 1896, the Nestorian bishop. Mar Gabriel,of Oroomiah, several other prominent Nestorian clergy-men, with their servants (among- whom were a numberof my best helpers, and Younan Bar Malekkambar), visitedthe Nestorian Patriarch. On their way home theywere attacked by the Kurds and massacred ; Younan BarMalekkambars body was hacked to pieces and the piecesscattered in all directions. Thus they avenged thedeath of that woman, as they alway
Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . ^ the Kurds, and they left dissatisfied. In the 3ear 1896, the Nestorian bishop. Mar Gabriel,of Oroomiah, several other prominent Nestorian clergy-men, with their servants (among- whom were a numberof my best helpers, and Younan Bar Malekkambar), visitedthe Nestorian Patriarch. On their way home theywere attacked by the Kurds and massacred ; Younan BarMalekkambars body was hacked to pieces and the piecesscattered in all directions. Thus they avenged thedeath of that woman, as they always will take reveng-efor the violent death of any one of their number, andshould it take them fifty years to do it. One hundred persons, more or less, are g-uests of thePatriarch every day. Each is kindly received, housedand entertained, and his horses or mules stabled andcared for. Sheep and fowls are being- continuallyslaug-htered to provide for the table, as four or five. ISAAC ADAMS. .1 A C( H: A 1) A MS. .\I).\.\I^ DAVID A DAMS. f *
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