Note 199 — Chapter VIII · ZÂKHÔ TO DIYÂRBEKR May 10—June 4
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Niebuhr heard that Mâr Melko was famed for the curing of epilepsy: Reisebericht, Vol. II. p. 388. Not having penetrated into the Ṭûr ’Abdîn, he thought that the report that there were seventy monasteries in the hills must be an exaggeration, but I expect that it was not far from the truth.