. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . mains of gardens, ornamented with stone conduits for water,which flowed in from a beautiful clear spring. A few shrubswere scattered about, still looking fresh and pretty. From Messorein we immediately ascended a high rockyi-idge, part of a principal chain which, enclosing a largespace of plain-country, extends from the Tigris far above Di-yarbekr, and reaches again to the Tigris south of this we rode for about an hour, when we came to the Village of s
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . mains of gardens, ornamented with stone conduits for water,which flowed in from a beautiful clear spring. A few shrubswere scattered about, still looking fresh and pretty. From Messorein we immediately ascended a high rockyi-idge, part of a principal chain which, enclosing a largespace of plain-country, extends from the Tigris far above Di-yarbekr, and reaches again to the Tigris south of this we rode for about an hour, when we came to the Village of small village of Ferhand, on the side of a hill, having gar-dens and cultivation in the hollo\v. Here we slept in thehouse of a Christian, who was in great anxiety about his fateand that of the village. Faro, one of the chiefs of theKurds, and the only one still in arms, had lived there. Hishouse, more considerable than usual, had been burnt and de-stroyed by the Pacha, and the villagers dreaded how far theywould be made to suffer with their former lord. We weretreated with great hospitality and attention, under the impres-. MAJOR-GENERAL ESTCOURTS SECOND JOURNEY. 425 sion that we should have influence with the Pacha, and also APPX. IVfrom an extravagant idea, which had spread through almost ^_—^ - every part of the country where we had been, that we werecome to take possession of it, and thus accomplish their tradi-tion, that the Turks shall be subdued by a European Power, Turkishand the whole country become Christian. This expectation is ^ ?hJs~entertained by Turks as well as Christians. The Turks believe to be so decreed, and are content; the Christians hope forit, and anxiously look to every event they can construe intoa sign of the coming change. Our arrival in this countryhad excited these long-cherished desires, and to it we wereindebted, I believe, for some of the overstrained attentionwe received. From Ferhand the country was again rocky and mountain-ous for t
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