Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . e ? The Koord raised his head, and, looking sternly round on his foes, saidcalmly, Allah be thanked, my ears are not closed; but my tongue is dumbto your questions. What torture more severe can we think of to make the fellow speak ? said the cadi, to the seraskier. An expression of fierce disdain lighted up the sufferers features at thesewords. No torture, he exclaimed, pointing to a man opposite him, notorture could be more horrible to me than to see there, before my e
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . e ? The Koord raised his head, and, looking sternly round on his foes, saidcalmly, Allah be thanked, my ears are not closed; but my tongue is dumbto your questions. What torture more severe can we think of to make the fellow speak ? said the cadi, to the seraskier. An expression of fierce disdain lighted up the sufferers features at thesewords. No torture, he exclaimed, pointing to a man opposite him, notorture could be more horrible to me than to see there, before my eyes,a dastard Koord, who has deserted his brethren, to consort with ourfoes! The Koord thus addressed, struck with sudden remorse, snatched a pistolfrom his girdle, put the muzzle in his mouth, and blew out his brains. Theunfortunate chief expired soon after in the boiling water. Antiquity has no grander example of patriotism to show than this : nosoldier or chieftain, Greek or Roman, ever displayed more heroic fortitudethan this young barbarian, whose name the world will never know.* * B. Ponjoulat, voyage en Koordish Officer of Sulimania. ^r 46 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. The Koord is extremely jealous of his liberty. His subjection to the Porteis scarcely more than nominal, and the tribute he pays its pashas and gover-nors is very trifling. There is a natural enmity between him and the Turk,whom he maltreats, and even kills, whenever he can do so with are regarded with much more favour, and can travel much moresecurely among the Koords, than can the Osmanlees. The Koords are allrobbers to a man, and this, perhaps, to a still greater degree than theBedouins. Their propensities in this respect were severely repressed byMohammed Alis strong hand while he was master of Syria; but they aresure to break out again whenever they are favoured by circumstances. On the dav of the battle of Nezib, on which Ibrahim Pacha defeated theSultans forces, all the sur
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