Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . amped, occupy a wide space of ground,and make a very picturesque appearance. There is an air of cleanlinessabout these summer encampments, strangely contrasted with the filthinessof the crowded and unwholesome winter quarters. Though pastors, the Koords are a people of dauntless bravery; they arehabituated from their childhood to the use of arms and to feats of horse-manship. Their breed of horses is small, but hardy, active, and full ofspirit, and superior, perhaps, to
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . amped, occupy a wide space of ground,and make a very picturesque appearance. There is an air of cleanlinessabout these summer encampments, strangely contrasted with the filthinessof the crowded and unwholesome winter quarters. Though pastors, the Koords are a people of dauntless bravery; they arehabituated from their childhood to the use of arms and to feats of horse-manship. Their breed of horses is small, but hardy, active, and full ofspirit, and superior, perhaps, to every other breed in surefootedness. A Turkish troop succeeded, in the year 1837, in, capturing one ofthe most formidable chiefs among the Koords. His age was barely thirty,his figure was tall and finely formed; so handsome a Koord had neverbefore fallen into the hands of the Osmanlees. He was led into the pre-sence of Hafiz Pacha, and, had he been a vizier, he could not have beentreated with more flattering attention by the generalissimo of the Sultansforces. Hafiz Pacha and the cadi of the army exhausted all the arts. A Man of the Jof Tribe, Kooidistan. KOORDS AND YEZIDIS. 45 of persuasion to induce their prisoner to give them information respectingthe movements and resources of the Koords; and the seraskier evenwent so far as to promise, that, if he replied frankly to his questions,he would make him colonel of one of his regiments. You are mistaken, Pasha, replied the captive Koord, if you think tofind in me another Revendouz Bey. Having once been a chief of the Koords,I will never be the chief of any other people ; wereI at the head of one of your regiments, the firstthing I should do would be to turn my armsagainst you ; and, Allah knows, I am no for the disclosures you expect from me, youshall never receive them : fate has thrown me intoyour hands ; do with me whatever you will. Despairing of effecting anything by fair means,Hafiz Pacha had recourse to torture
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