INDEX
Reading edition
Abaidulla, Shaikh, his invasion of Persia, 160
Abba or cloak, 400
Abdul Aziz, Sultan, his death, 187
Abdul Hamid, Sultan, 10;
his accession, 187;
policy, 191
Abdul Qadir, 221
Abdulla ibn Saba, 385
Abdulla Pasha, 185
Abdurrahman Pasha, the Baban of Sulaimania, his revolt against the Turks, 329, 371
Abgarus, King of Edessa, 48
Adiabene, 104, 106;
history, 111–113;
the see of a Chaldean bishopric, 112
Afshin, 362;
fate of, 363
Ahmad Bash Chaush, the muleteer, 325, 329
Ahmad Kulwan, 220
Ahmad Pasha, his revolt against the Turks, 185, 372
Ahmad, Shaikh, 284;
appointed Qaim Maqam of Chemchemal, 302
Ahmad Takhti, Shaik, his poems, 391
Ahmadi Khani, his literary works, 388;
method of instruction, 389
Ahwaz, Chaldean colony at, 158 note, 160
Al-i-Ayub tribe, 80 note
Al Ma’mun, 362
Al Musta’sim b’Illah, Khalifa, 360
Al Mu’tasim Khalifa, 150
Al Mutawakkil, Khalifa, 151;
his persecution of the Jews and Christians, 151;
murdered, 151
Al Qush, patriarchate at, 155
Al Wathiq, Khalifa, 151
Aleppo, 25;
history, 26;
manufacture of cotton cloth, 27
Ali Abu Taleb or Qasim ul Arzaq, 385
Ali bin Muhammad, 363
Ali Effendi, 242
Ali Illahi, cult of the, 382–386
Ali Shah, ruler of Aoram Castle, 378, 379
Altai Mountains, 152
Altun Keupri, 109, 113, 337, 349;
the “Golden Bridge,” 114
Amadia, 373
Amanullah Khan, 377, 378
Amin Effendi, his appearance, 240;
history, 241;
character, 242–247;
punishment, 249
Amrikani sect, 159
Anab, 254
Anti-Taurus or Hakkiari, 371
Antoine, the merchant, 281
Aoraman Mountain, 182, 184, 213, 254, 324;
province, 377, 379;
tribe, 171, 377;
their language, 171
Arabia, bishopric of, 150 note
Araq, the drink, 340
Ararat, Mount, 83, 388
Arbela or Erbil, 99, 104, 108;
history, 109–113;
meaning of the name, 110;
sacrilegious outrage, 112
Ardalan, province of, 160, 376;
history, 218;
the Khans of, 376
Ardashir Babakan, the Persian king, 359
Armenia or Urartu, 111, 368;
bishopric of, 150 note
Armenians, 3;
their mode of eating, 4;
of Diarbekr, 63
Arsaces I., founder of the Parthian empire, 111
Artaxerxes, the Persian, 112
Ashtoreth or Ashtaroth, 35
Asima Khan, 298, 322
Asshur, 89, 98
Asshurnazipal, 99, 110
Assyria, 54, 104, 106, 369;
bishopric of, 150 note
Assyrians or Chaldeans, 140, see Chaldeans
Atergatis, the worship of, 32, 34, 36
Azarbaijan, bishopric of, 150 note
Azmir Mountains, 184, 211, 228, 254
Baal, or Bel or Moloch, the Sun-god, or Dagon, 35
Baalbak, 24
Bāb, 29
Baba Murda, 325, 327
Baba Yadgar, 383, 384
Babak, the tenets of, 362;
crucifixion, 363
Babylonia, 140
Badar Khan Bey, revolution under, 156, 159, 372
Bagdad, 27, 217, 365;
railway, 37;
patriarchate transferred to, 150;
preparations for the passage to, 352–355;
journey, 355–365
Bahrum Gur, 382
Baji Raihan, her house, 269–271
Balkh, bishopric of, 150 note
Bana, 377, 378
Basra, bishopric of, 150 note
Bayazid, 179, 373, 388
Bazian, plain, 164, 170, 175;
range, 337;
valley, 326;
meaning of the word, 176 note
Bekr, Abu, 49
“Belit” or Ishtar, the worship of, 34
Beth Qurma, bishopric of, 150 note
Beyrouth, 21
Biara, 223;
pilgrimage to, 253–257
Bilbas tribe, 375
Binder, Henry, Au Kurdistan, extracts from, 395, 400
Birejiq, 32
“Birkh,” feast of, 384
Birtha, 359
Bishop, Mrs, 159
Bisitun, Mountain of, 221
Bitlis, 373;
power of the princes, 374
Bokht Yishu, director of Jund-i-Shapur College, banished, 151
Bosphorus, the, 2
Bread, method of making, 296
British Museum, collection of the works of Kurdish poets, 218 note
Brown, Rev. W., his missionary work among the Chaldeans, 159
Browne, Prof., A Literary History of Persia, 143 note, 145 note, 363
Buhtan Su, 80
Bustan us Siaha, 362 note, 364 note, 367
Canterbury, Archbishop of, his mission at Urumiah, 159
Caucasus, the, 103
Chaldeans, the, found the college at Edessa, 49;
character, 64, 122;
dress, 123, 156;
varied sects, 140;
adopt the tenets of Christianity, 142;
treaty with Muhammad, 149;
prosperity, 150;
number of bishoprics, 150;
persecutions, 151, 154, 157;
missionary campaign in Merv, 152;
in China, 152;
Mongolia, 153;
condition, 157;
attempts to regenerate the Church, 158;
the Archbishop’s mission, 159;
American mission, 159;
Creed, 161;
the Sacraments, 161;
orders of clergy, 162;
fasts and feasts, 162;
the new, 157
Charmelik, 43
“Charukhia,” the, 402
Chasemgara, bishopric of, 150 note
Chemchemal, 180, 332;
raids of the Hamavands, 288
Chengiz Khan, first Mongol Emperor, 152;
his tolerance towards the Chaldeans, 153
China, bishopric of, 150 note;
Chaldean missionaries in, 152
Christians, their character, 64, 141;
persecutions, 65, 151, 154;
dress, 66;
freedom from persecution at Mosul, 93;
condition of the Church, 147
Cigarettes, Kurdish, 52
Cluzel, Father, 160
Cochrane, Dr, 160
Constantinople, 1;
three quarters or districts, 2;
the Golden Horn, 2;
Galata quarter, 3;
population, 3;
climate, 12;
power of the Majlis, 194
Cook, T., 5, 17
Crassus, Marcus Lucius, 32, 48
Creagh, Armenians, Koords, and Turks, extract from, 368
Dailam, bishopric of, 150 note
Dalahu Mountain, 384
Damascus, 26
Dar el Sayeda, 158
Dara Shamana, 184
Darband-i-Bazian, 327, 329
Darius the Mede, 377
Darnes, Father, 160
Darsim, 369, 372, 374
Darvish, his mode of chanting, 326
Daud Khan, leader of the Kalhur tribe, 386
Daur or Dura, 360
“Dayaukku, House of,” 370
Demavend, 377
Derghezeen, 328
Diarbekr, 27, 57, 60–72;
population, 60, 63;
curious stones, 62;
history, 63;
gates, 63;
sects, 64;
conquest, 373
Div, the, 403
Doctor, a quack, 299–302
“Du,” or curds and whey, 168, 214
Duaisa, the Vazirs of, 218
Dukkan-i-Daud, 384
Ecbatana, or Hamadan, 370
Edessa or Urfa, 45;
history, 47–50;
college, 49;
transferred to Jund-i-Shapur, 144;
massacre of Armenians, 50
Edrisi, the minister, 373, 388
Elam, 110;
bishopric of, 150 note
Elie, Bishop of Jazira ibn Umar, 158
Ephesus, General Council at, 143
Erbil, 108, 113
Esarhaddon, 99, 110
Euphrates, the, 32, 34, 53;
crossing the, 38;
valley, 39
Fakhr Ul Mulk, Governor of Shushtar, 379
Fath Ali Shah, 218, 375, 378
Fez, result of wearing a, 6, 18, 114
Fitz Gerald, his translation of Omar Khayyam, 382
Fleas, number of, 215 note
Flies, number of, 133
Fraser, David, The Short Cut to India, 89 note, 191 note;
on the character of the Kurds, 394;
Travels in Koordistan, 400 note
Fravartish, 371
Gahwara, 382
Galata, tower of, 3;
population, 3;
drainage, 3
Gavar, 51
Gavarnai, the, 51, 157
Ghafur Agha, 196, 203, 314
Ghafur, his character, 295;
behaviour, 295
Ghazan Khan, 154
Ghazar river, 104
Ghulam Husain, 131, 204, 242, 251;
his confession of identity, 316–318;
profession of faith, 330
Ghulam Shah Khan, 218, 378
Godarz, 111
Golden Bridge at Altun Keupri, 114
Golden Horn, 2, 12
“Gordyene,” or “Kurdian,” 54;
the Invincible, 369
Gozan, 99
Greeks, their costume, 3
Gulambar, “The Amber Flower,” 213, 220;
Mudir of, 208
Gulchin, her character, 297, 299, 322;
sad history, 298
Guran tribe, 217, 224, 381;
dialect, 218 note, 382;
professors of the cult of Ali Iliahi, 382
Habib Badria, 205, 269, 276;
his appearance, 205;
appointed Mudir of Serajiq, 208
Habor river, 99
Hadra, 89
Hadrian, Emperor, 112
Haifa, 21
Haji Fattah, his office broken into, 314
Haji Vali, his journey in a kalak to Mosul, 67–88;
purchases, 68;
religious sentiments, 69;
dual personality, 70;
attack of rheumatism, 76;
passport, 85;
at Mosul, 88
Hakkari or Anti-Taurus, 371, 373;
tribe, 86, 102;
succession to the Khanate, 374 note;
dress, 400
Halabja or Alabja, 13, 213;
journey to, 210–215;
trade, 220;
gardens, 220;
bazaar, 220, 231
Halak, 99
Hama, 24
Hama, the servant, his appearance, 248;
wages, 249;
attacked and wounded, 256;
commercial transactions, 279, 294;
purchase of shoes, 280;
arrival with loads of “run,” 309;
denunciation of Shaikh ul Islam, 310;
loss of a load of “run,” 311, 320
Hama Ali, 274
Hama Beg, chief of the Hamavands, 176, 179
Hamadan (Ecbatana), 370
Hamavands, 44, 95, 119;
their dress, 98, 173;
protection against, 164;
raids, 164, 179–182, 287, 288;
custom at meeting, 172;
cleanliness, 173;
characteristics, 174;
claim Arab origin, 178;
dialect, 178;
attack on Turkish soldiers, 289;
on the Khan-i-Ajam, 291
Haoril or Haolir, 108 note
Harun al Rashid, Khalifa, 150, 361
Hasan Kaif, 79;
legend of, 79
Hasan Khan, Sultan of the Aorami, 379
Hasan, clerk or scribe to Tahir Beg, 236;
his flight to Halabja, 237;
falls in love, 237
Hasanabad, 377
Herat, bishopric of, 150 note
Herki of Oramar, Khan of, 395
Hierapolis, 36
Hittites, the, history, 34–37
Homs, 34
Hormuz, bishopric of, 150 note
Howley, Archbishop, 159
Hulagu Khan, 152;
his invasion, 153;
advance on Tekrit, 360
Hulvan, or Zuhab, bishopric of, 150 note
Hulwan, 221
Husain al Askari, 363
Ibn ul Athir, his birthplace, 86
Ibrahim Pasha, 27, 43, 185, 191
Imam Daur, 360
Indates, defeat of, 106
India, bishopric of, 150 note
Isfandabad, 377
Ishtar, the goddess, worship of, 35, 110;
temples, 35, 36;
ruins of the temple, 113
Islam, the creed of, 65;
revival, 154;
conversion to, 251
Isma’il Pasha, 185
Izates, the King of Adiabene, 107, 111
Izzat Pasha, 188;
exiled, 195
Jabal Hamrin Range, 356
Jackson, Prof. Williams, Persia, Past and Present, 376 note
Jaf tribe, 179, 379–381;
their dress, 98, 400;
encampments, 212;
coherency, 216;
history, 217–219, 223, 380;
number of people, 380
“Jamana” or coloured handkerchief, 402
Jawan Mir Khan, leader of the Hamavands, 179
Jazira or Jazira ibn Umar, 81, 373;
his history, 86
Jews, the, of Kirkuk, 123
Jinn, the, 403
Jonah, the prophet, theory on, 89–92
Juanru, 223, 377, 380
Julamark, 373;
patriarchate transferred to, 154
Jum’a, the Arab, 333
Jund-i-Shapur, medical college at, 144;
deprived of its rights, 151
Kalah, 89, 99
Kalak, or raft of skins and poles, 66;
construction, 72;
cargo, 73;
passengers, 73;
crew, 73;
mode of eating on board, 75;
effect of stormy weather, 75–78, 80;
change of crew, 81;
cast on a rock, 87
Kalhur tribe, 382, 386;
origin, 386
Kandil Dagh, 336
Kandula tribe, 377 note
Karaja, 53
Karkhemish, 26, 32, 37
Kashgar, bishopric of, 150 note
Kasshu tribe, 370
Kauther brook, 99, 100
“Kawa” or long coat, 402
Kawad (Sasaman), the Persian leader, 63, 144
Kazemain, 364
Keraite tribe, 152
Kermānjī or Zaza tribes, 11
Kermanshah, 317, 372
Keui Sanjaq, 95
Keuwi Lash, or The Mountain of a Body, 102 note
Khabur, 99
Khan Baligh, bishopric of, 150 note
Khaniqin, 211, 294
Khanum, Lady Adela, of Halabja, 215;
her marriage, 219, 225, 380;
position, 219, 398;
appearance, 226;
dress, 226;
debts, 232;
reception, 233–236;
sons, 263;
defence of Ghulam Husain, 310
Kharput, 369, 372
Khayyam, Omar, his birthplace, 115
Khorsabad (Dar Sharrukin), 89, 99
Khosrova, mission at, 160
Khosru Khan, 377, 378
Khusrava, 51
“Khwolmur” “The Dead Land,” 213 note
Kileh Shergat, 98
Kirkuk, 109, 119, 164, 338;
population, 120, 124;
police, 120;
architecture, 120;
honesty and goodwill of the people, 121;
the Chaldeans, 122;
Jews, 123;
the Faili Lurs, 124;
the Persian Consul, 124–127;
climate, 133, 344;
flies, 133;
scarcity of water, 134;
price of vegetables, 138
Koyunjik, 99
Kuchuk Sulaiman Pasha of Bagdad, 329
Kufa, bishopric founded at, 150
Kurdistan, 164, 317, 372, 376
Kurdistan Mountains, 53, 54, 104, 118
Kurds, 3;
use of the “kursi,” 13;
hospitality, 40;
characteristics, 41, 55, 392–396, 398;
their form of cigarettes, 52;
derivation of the word, 54;
dress, 60, 399–402;
levity, 131;
freedom of the women, 168, 268, 396;
power of endurance, 177;
result of free intercourse between the sexes, 237, 397, 398;
repugnance to the system of government by representation, 239;
origin and history, 367;
legends, 368;
language, 369, 387;
tribes, 372, 406;
the Hakkari, 373;
the Zaza, 374;
the Mukri, 375;
the Beni Ardalan, 376–379;
the Jaf, 379–381;
the Guran, 381;
the Kalhur, 386;
dialects, 387;
literature, 388;
eminent men, 388;
poets, 389;
songs and poems, 390–392;
feudal spirit, 393;
faithfulness, 395;
violent temper, 395;
ignorance, 396;
appearance, 398;
costume of the women, 401;
belief in fairies, 402;
sub-tribes, 406
“Kursi,” meaning of the term, 13
Lahijan, 387
Lash, or the place of a body, 102
Layard, Sir H., Nineveh, 49 note, 100 note, 141, 150 note, 152 note, 153 note, 155 note, 161 note, 397 note, 399 note
Lazarists, French, their mission at Salmas, 160
Lettuces, price of, at Kirkuk, 138
Levantines, 3;
mode of eating, 4
Luristan, 381
Lutf Ali Khan Zend, 378
Lycus, the, 106
Mahmud Pasha, 217, 224, 380
Mahmud Pasha Jaf, his encampment, 215
Majid Beg, 215, 223;
his appearance, 233
Makha, the Jew, 279
Malabar, the Christians of St John of, 150 note
Ma’mum, Khalifa, 150
Mamuret ul Aziz, 38, 47
Mandali besieged by Hamavands, 179
Mansur, a native of Sina, 229, 265;
his room at Halabja, 230
Manubaz, King of Adiabene, 112
Mar Elias, patriarch of Al Qush, 155
Mar Shimun, patriarch at Julamark, 155
“Marhabba,” custom of, 116
Marwan, Abdullah ibn, defeated, 107
Masius, 53
Matti Tuma, 203, 269;
his office at Sulaimania, 204;
mode of living, 281, 283;
his grief at the murder of Mustafa Beg, 314;
wish to know the identity of Ghulam Husain, 316–319
Mazdak, sect of, doctrines, 145;
persecuted, 146;
execution, 146
Mazyar, the rebel, 363
Mecca, pilgrims returning from, 23, 45, 51, 67
Medes, the, 55, 370, 398
Media, 369
Meherdates, a Parthian prince, 48;
at Jazira, 86;
defeated, 111
Membich, 32, 36
Merivan, 239, 377, 378
Merv, bishopric of, 150 note;
missionary campaign in, 152
Mesopotamia, 47
Milli Kurds, 40, 42, 372
Millingen, Wild Life among the Koords, 397 note
Mirza Hasan Khan, 6
Mithridates conquers Adiabene, 111
Mitylene, 18
Mongols, their treatment of the Chaldeans, 153;
cruelty, 154 note
Mosul, 27, 89, 92;
trade, 93;
language, 93;
squalid condition, 93;
feud with Sulaimania, 94;
result of the Valis’ visit of investigation, 193;
amount of his bribe, 194
Muan tribe, 214
Muhammad Ali Beg, 224
Muhammad Ali Mirza, his invasion of Shahr-i-Zur, 222
Muhammad Ali Shah, 7, 10;
eulogium on, 126
Muhammad Husain Isfahani, Zaka ul Mulk, 386
Muhammad Mustafa, “The Prophet,” his birth, 147;
compiles the Quran, 147, 149;
his treatment of the Chaldeans, 149
Muhammad Pasha, 371;
character of his rule, 372;
murdered by the Turks, 372
Muhammad “as Saghir,” 363
Mukri tribe, their dialect, 375, 376, 387;
song, 392;
dress, 399, 401
Mules, mode of loading, 167
Mulla Ahmad, 184
Muradi tribe, 223
Musafiru’ Zahid, 102
Mustafa Beg, 208, 283, 292;
his mode of life at Sulaimania, 196, 209, 275;
various appointments, 206, 312;
his avariciousness, 275;
purchases, 275;
murdered, 313–315;
his last words, 313;
interment, 319
Mu’tamid, Khalifa, 361
Mu’tamed ud Douleh, 218, 379
Mu’tasim, Khalifa of Bagdad, 361;
his fanatical nature, 362
Mutawakkil, accession of, 363
Muzaffar ud Dim Shah, 10
Naaman, Kas Jacob, Archbishop of Bagdad, 157
Nadir Shah, 375
Nairi, the lands of, 47, 54, 368
Nali, his poems, 389
Namiq Pasha, 185
Nasir ud Din, Shah of Persia, 218, 378
Nebi Yunis, “The Prophet Jonah,” shrine of, 89, 99, 100
Neo-Syriacor Aramaic language, 52
Nestorians, the new sect, 143;
Church, 144;
character of the doctrines, 148
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, 143;
his doctrines, 144
Nicolai founds the village of Khusrava, 51
Nimrud or Kalah, ruins of, 99
Nineveh, 86, 89, 99;
battle of, 111
Niphates, Mount, 53, 54, 369
Nishapur, 115
Nisibis, bishopric of, 150 note
Nurullah Bey, 156
Nushirvan, the Just, Shah of Persia, 145;
his relations with the Christians, 145;
persecution of the Mazdaks, 145, 146;
death, 147
Osman Pasha, 156
Osrhœne, 47
Panjwin, 223, 239
Parthia, 32, 48
Parthians, the, 360 note
Passport, procuring a, 16;
police enquiries, 292, 302–307
Pera, 2, 4;
Palace Hotel, 5
Peri, the, 403
Persia, first Constitution granted, 10;
condition of roads, 44;
bishopric of, 150 note;
invasion, 160
Persians, their attitude towards the inauguration of the Turkish Parliament, 8;
treatment at Rayak, 23;
dual personality, 70;
language, 115, 387;
doggerel, 117;
treatment of Chaldeans, 143, 146
Pir or saint, origin of, 402
Pir-i-Mugurun Mountain, 169, 336
Piruz, her house, 268
Piruza, 237
Pishdr, 184
Prester John, Khan of Tartary, 152
“Pushin,” the, 402
Pushtamala section, 223;
sub-tribes, 224
“Qaba,” or short tunic, 401
Qadir, Shaikh, 187, 192, 195
Qajar tribe, 378
Qalà-i-Chwalan or Qara Chulan, 184
Qara Chulan, 184
Qarakorum, 152
Qasr-i-Shirin, 179, 221, 372;
Old Concession at, 396
Qizil Rubat, 217, 223, 224
“Quffa,” or round bitumen-covered coracle, 365
Quietus, Lucius, 48
Quran, mode of compiling the, 147, 149
Quria, 348
Ragozin, Prof., Assyria, 91 note, 107 note, 110 note, 369, 370
“Rashaba,” or north-east wind, 272, 319
Rashid, the muleteer, 97, 132, 136
Rasul Ahmad, 266
Rasul Haji, 126, 128;
his cats, 129;
wanderings, 130;
characteristics, 130;
fanaticism, 130;
meditations, 131
Rasul Qawl, 80 note
Rawanduz, 118, 373
Rawlinson, Parthia, 32 note
Rayak, 22
Reza, Shaikh, 134;
his fanaticism, 135
Rhodes, 18
Rich, J. C., Travels in Kurdistan, 328, 329;
Residence in Kurdistan, 400
Roman Catholics, 153;
their persecution of the Chaldeans, 155;
unscrupulousness, 155;
result of the Bull of Papal Infallibility, 157;
clauses, 158
Ronkus, Thomas, 157
“Run” or clarified butter, 253;
mode of transporting, 265;
theft of a load, 311, 320
Rustam, the Persian hero, 377
Sabbah, Hasan, 49
Saghalien, the, 17
Sagirma, 176
Sa’id, Shaikh, his system of administration at Sulaimania, 187–191;
tyranny, 189;
relations with the Hamavands, 190;
murdered, 192
S’airt, massacre of Chaldeans at, 157
Saladin, 376, 388
Salim, Khaja, 338
Salmas, 52;
French Lazarists at, 160
“Salta” or zouave jacket, 401
Samarqand, bishopric of, 150 note
Samarra, “Surra-man-ra,” 150, 361;
history, 361–364
Saqiz, 377
“Sardari,” or plaited frock-coat, 401
Sasan, 221
Sauch Bulaq, 375, 387
Sauj Bulaq, 116
Sayce, Prof. E. G., his researches into the history of the Hittites, 34, 36
Sayyid Nuri, 299;
at Sulaimania, 284;
his appearance, 284;
inquisitiveness, 285;
use of a pistol, 285;
miserable existence, 286;
at Kirkuk, 345
Sayyid Rustam, head of the sect Ali Illahi, 383 note
Scorpion bites, remedy for, 61
Se-gan-fu, tablet at, 152
Senjabi tribe, 386
Sennacherib, King, 99, 110, 370
Serajiq, Mudir of, 208
Sert, 51
Severik, 53
Severus, Emperor, 49;
his invasion of Adiabene, 112
Shah Abbas, 375
Shahr-i-Bazar, 220;
meaning of the name, 221
Shahr-i-Zur or Sharizur, 186, 220, 254;
plain of, 212;
meaning of the name, 221;
population, 221;
dialect, 222
Shaikh Ali, the Yezidi saint, 102
Shaikh ul Islam, 11, 250;
interviews with, 12–14;
his visits to Halabja, 252, 264;
at Biara, 252;
reception of Ghulam Husain, 257–263;
denunciation of him, 309
“Shaitan Baizi,” meaning of the term, 97
Shaits, the, 403
Shalmaneser I. founds Kalah, 99 note
Shalmaneser II., 370
Sharaf Nama, or history of the Kurds, 389
Sharaf ud Din Bey, Hakkari of Bitlis, his history of the Kurds, 389
Sharafbaiani Kurds, 181
Sharif Bey, 374
Shefiq Effendi, 132, 163, 165, 171
Shi’a, mode of praying, 301
Shiraz, 251, 302, 387
Shiz, 376
Shuan Kurds, meaning of the term, 165;
villages, 167, 169
Shulwars, 400
Siazurus, 214 note
Sina, 378;
Chaldeans of, 160;
art and literature, 218;
antiquity, 376
Sinjar range, 86, 103
Sirwan River, 181
Sistan, bishopric of, 150 note
Stamboul, 2, 5, 238;
the Great Bazaar, 5
Suez Canal, result of the opening, 27
Sulaiman Pasha of Bagdad, 185
Sulaimania, feud with Mosul, 94;
costume of the people, 97, 200, 400, 402;
journey to, 163–183;
situation, 183, 184;
history, 184;
population, 185;
tyranny of the Shaikhs, 186–191;
trade, 188, 195;
revolt, 189;
result of the murder of Shaikh Sa’id, 192;
the Vali of Mosul’s visit of investigation, 193;
system of currency, 197;
customs, 198;
the habit of “Aiba bokum,” 199;
dislike of innovations, 199;
suspicion of strangers, 200–203;
pleasantry, 203;
Persian architecture, 210;
return to, 267;
method of buying and selling, 273;
Military School, 277;
attacks of Hamavands, 287, 291;
departure from, 323;
poets, 389
Sunni, their mode of praying, 301
Surchina, plain, 182;
valley, 193, 326
Susa, 49
Suverek, 55
Syria, bishopric of, 150 note
Syrians or Christian Arabs, 64
Tabaristan, bishopric of, 150 note
Tahir Beg, 215, 223;
his literary skill, 228;
appearance and dress, 228;
his clerk or scribe, 236;
views on the Balkan and Cretan questions, 238
Takht-i-Sulaiman, 376
Tanguth, bishopric of, 150 note
Tarshish, 90
Tartary, the Chaldean Bishop of, 152
Taurus Mountains, 37
Tekrit, 358;
history, 359
Tel Kaif, 158
Teumman, King, 110
Tiglath-Pileser I., 54, 98, 107
Tigran I., the Parthic-Armenian king, 63, 111
Tigran V., King of Armenia, 112
Tigris, the, 34, 78, 98, 106, 118, 356, 373;
derivation of the name, 54;
the plain, 337
Tikrit, 90
Timur-i-Lang (Tamerlane), his massacre of Christians, 154;
conquest of Diarbekr, 373
Trajan, Emperor, 48, 86, 112
Tripoli, 21, 320;
Hamavands deported to, 179
Turkey, inauguration of Parliament, 8;
lawlessness, 9;
condition of roads, 44, 55;
custom of “Marhabba,” 116;
constitution proclaimed, 190;
views on the Parliament, 239
Turko-Egyptian war, 27
Turkomans, their characteristics, 116;
language, 117
Turks, their inquisitiveness, 11
Umar, the muleteer, 345, 349, 353
Urfa or Edessa, 45, 52;
population, 47
Urumia, Lake, 375, 387
Urumiah, 156;
missions at, 159, 160
Uthman, Amir Qara, governor of Hakkari, 373
Uthman, Haji, 352
Uthman, Pasha, governor of Halabja, 206, 217, 224;
his dress, 207;
appearance, 207;
his wife, Lady Adela, 208, 219, 225, 380;
return to Halabja, 263;
death, 380
Uvakshatara, 371
Van, Lake, 51, 368, 373
Vologases I., 107, 112
Vologases V., 49
Willocks, Sir William, his investigation of waterways in the Euphrates valley, 83 note
Xenophon, 371
Yazdigird III., 145 note, 147
Yezidis or “Devil-Worshippers,” 100, 383;
religious views, 100;
origin of the name, 101;
customs, 102;
the saint Shaikh Adi, 102;
ranks of the priesthood, 103;
persecutions, 103;
poverty, 103
Yizdijird I., King of Persia, 142, 143
Yusif, Odo, Patriarch, his secession, 158
Zab River, the Greater, 98, 104,106, 368, 373;
battle at, 106;
the Lower, 106, 113, 169, 351, 356;
battles of, 107, 149;
valley, 170, 172
Zagros Mountain, 94, 106, 108, 118, 166, 170, 369
Zailan, 104
Zain ul Abidin Palangani, his poems, 391
Zainu’l Abidin Shirvani, Haji “Bustanu’s Siaha,” extract from, 92
Zarda, 384
Zaza tribe, 374;
their dialect and character, 374
Zeno, the Isaurian, 49, 144
Zoroaster, the prophet, 376, 388
Zuwayid bin Sawda, 92
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