The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . HIGH-PRIEST OP THE DEVIL-WORSHIPERS. and owns all the kingdoms thereof; he is the dispenserof all evil which comes to man, and is, therefore, to bepropitiated. They believe that he will be finally re-stored to his former greatness, and they wish so to de-mean themselves toward him that he will rememberthem when he comes into his kingdom. Their symbolof the Evil One is a bronze peacock, around which they 404 THRONES AND PALACES OF march on their festal days, and a duplicate of which theirpriests c
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . HIGH-PRIEST OP THE DEVIL-WORSHIPERS. and owns all the kingdoms thereof; he is the dispenserof all evil which comes to man, and is, therefore, to bepropitiated. They believe that he will be finally re-stored to his former greatness, and they wish so to de-mean themselves toward him that he will rememberthem when he comes into his kingdom. Their symbolof the Evil One is a bronze peacock, around which they 404 THRONES AND PALACES OF march on their festal days, and a duplicate of which theirpriests carry when they go on missions to raise money. As we had concluded to keep to the plains and avoidthe mountain-passes, where the snow was deep, and asthe Turkish soldier from Mosul was not allowed to leavethe post-road, we were compelled to take a Devil-wor-shiper to escort us on our way. He was a young man,of kind and obliging manners, and we felt safe in hiscompany. A short distance beyond Semail, we met a. YEZIDI WOMEN. party of gayly dressed Kurdish soldiers, who are thesworn enemies of the native Christians, and for whomwe had a more respectful fear than we had for evening, and after having been in the saddleeleven and a half hours, we stopped for the night at thesmall village of Barsufkee, where we saw fences for thefirst time during all our tour. The sheikh was absent,but his wife bade us welcome to her new house, built ofstone. The tuhhteravan was placed within the entrance, BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 405 in which our elect lady slept, while we spread ourblankets on the cemeDt-covered floor, surrounded by ourmen. We were now in Kurdistan, and the villagers wereKurds, brave, fierce, and thievish. They were part of avast community whose territory extends from near Mo-sul to the mountain fastnesses of Diarbekir, and fromthe Desert of the Arabs on the west to their own mount-ain-range on the east. They are naturally mountaineers,but descend to the plains in quest of p
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