Nineveh And Its Remains: With An Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christian of Kurdistan, And the Yezidis, Or Devil-Worshippers; And An Inquiry Into the Manners And Arts of the Ancient Assyrians
Nineveh And Its Remains: With An Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christian of Kurdistan, And the Yezidis, Or Devil-Worshippers; And An Inquiry Into the Manners And Arts of the Ancient Assyrians
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894. [from Old Catalog]
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The principal people of the villagt were soon col- Digitized by VjOOQIC Chap. IX.] RID£ TO THE TOMB. 283 lected, and we all started together, forming a long procession, preceded by musicians with the tambourine and pipe. The women were busily employed in loading their donkeys with carpets and domestic utensils. They were to follow leisurely. Hussein Bey and I rode together, and as long as the ground permitted, the horsemen and footmen who accompanied us, engaged in mimic fight, discharging thei...r firearms into the air, and singing their war-cry. We soon reached the foot of a very precipitous ascent, up which ran a steep and difficult pathway. The horsemen now rode on in single file, and we were frequently compelled to dismount and drag our horses over the rocks. We gained the summit of the pass in about an hour, and looked down into the richly wooded valley of Sheikh Adi. As soon as the white spire of the tomb appeared above the trees, all our party discharged their guns. The echoes had scarcely died away, when our signal was answered by similar discharges from below.
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