New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-09


won en- followed he respers to CLEAN the heifs before
the sheep and goats were permitted 10 scent the
stubble- grounds for proyender.
Here and there a wild gazells ws picking mp stray
kernels in the ield bidding detince n pursuit; Al
times reaper would come out TO with ountie OF
fresh cut grnin-the first fruits Of the season-ior
which be wanted his bdeSshish.
crowd Of csmels wero shedding their sen nair-
coats around the olive groves of tasheka "a we ep-
pro,ched the town and we were kindly received oy
The Yezeedees though we had been the acAnoWl-
eJsed friends Of Satan. These people holt frequent
festivals at this place and at Baszani, nAgnooring
town alec empowered in olives the only places IN TINS
reoion where these trees found in any cSasiders
be number, and numerous shess or ndied cones on
square bases erected In hor ro distinguished soelkns
or perhaps in places where the messengers OF divinity
are thought to have sat- appear here aud there about
these villages. few persons, mostly kGrahLs OF
priests gather within around them, on speclai &C.
casions ard go through secret SERVICE ana at tne
great festivals mSlok taos or king peacock himseh "
brought OUT 10 receive the homage OF the worshpers
But Is not nv purpose now 10 spesk OF ther reli-
gous services. They devoted 10 their creed as
the orthodox of any faith whatever nave seldom
known one 10 abandon his people. lew days since,
IN Baazapi two Yezeedees fell upon and butchered an
OLD Christian for speaking dsrespectfully OF the deV
They are now imprisoned in Mosul, but they may par
haps be let loose on the payment OF the snpuiA'ed
blood money. They were advised 10 XII the IN IN oy
Sbeikb Nasr the religious head OF the fezeedees, OF
whose character Layard gives good account, but
whose face and figure bis arist failed q hit as mucn
as be failed of portrayng the features OF hassein bey
Abandonment of their faith IL crime worthy OF de ttn
In The opinion of the Yezeedees. How much has Mo-
manned had to DO with sustaining this conviction and
preventing the humanizng influences OF Christianity
from exertng their strength upon them
few Jacobite Syrian Christians live among them,
but one Of their priests told he did not dare 10
sneak to them Of salvation by Christ lest they should
turn and rend him-the same sort of story was told
by the Christians Of Akra in reference to their con-
versing with their Kurdish neg hbOrs on matters OF
religion. False faith sussins Itself by tire sword and
/ fageot be il Yezeedee, Mosem or Popish.
We were famed during the heat of the day by the
| Yezeedee women, who used their large aprons Tor
this purpose, which, being tied at the two corners
of one and over the left shoulder the back as
/ well az the front Of the body.
Toward evening we proceeded eastward two hours
TO Duberdan, Kurdish village, leaving on our lei.
the Jacobite convent of Muir Muttai, perched like
nest on the southern face Of Je6el Makloub and on
the rs ht tots scattered over the PLAIN eX-
! tending TO the Zab. The great mound at Biasheka
was but partially explored by Layard, and there ~
great reason expect that objects as interesting as
any yet exbumed hereafter 10 be turned out OF the
! Assyrian mounds
We started on Thursday morning. after spending
three hours in packing and loadiug Tor the PLAN oi
Navkoor
One or two miserable collections Of huts presented
themselves by paththere are no roads or fences
in this part of Turkey-and AZ every ttIe brook We
were greeted with oleanders in full red bloom, while
holly hooks thstles aud thorns gave yarlety to the
! brown turning hills.
Crossing the river Gomel the name Of which re-
calls the Gangumela where fought tho great bat
tie that decded the entrance Of the Macedonian con-
aueror into Persia the track OF the rotreating Dl-
u.s. we travelled an hour of the richest tracts
have anywhere seen, to tho khaZlr, or ancient Bl-
uadus. Numerous channels still remain IN the plan
embraced by these streams, indicating former and
/ very extensive irrigation Even now the villages
along the rivers rrigate the banks more or less and
in the very sands OF the stream they make little ele-
/ yations ia which to plant cucumOers -and melons
! xbi abu
| plain abouI DIS with hcOrce and wormwood-eX-
tremes meeting in nature CO well as IN art and char
| actor. 81,
At9 A. VI. man with clarionet and another with
coare drum serenaded our entrance TO the village
OF Kbowazai for bdckshist Of course, and we were
| coon laid out upon the floor OF mud hut, having
matched roof some ten feet from the ground aud Two
rows of holes in the walls for the circulation OF the AR
and To- admit light The clay plastering much cooler
than that from lime it is indeed almost as good non
conductor of heat the solid blocks of g psum OF
| Mosul or genuine marble. IL is probable that the
fact Of the houses in Baghda1 being constructed 10
| great measure of clay renders them so much more
comfortable in summer than are those IN aosul, which
are built OF JOSS, mixture OF stones ana pounded
| gypsum. The villages on the plane of Nlvkoor are
wrttt he'd indeed all the villages OF Turkey in
Asia. A single room with partitions for various spe
cs OF animals is often the whole extent Of the house.
! The Government seizes nearly half the value OF
every thing taxable and the poor people motive
to industry What a curse il the Turk 10 his country
The language of the people Of this village IL called
sEebak,k or net.like from the fact tina, il il con-
! generation Of various tongues, particularly Kurdish,
/ Persian and Turkish. The Arabic is probably the
purest language of the Orient and yet this in
spite of the theory that il InnOt adopt foreign
word. il corrupted in many localities by admlxture
| with foreign elements. The Bedouins of the desert
speak very different and much purer Arabic than
the people OF the most civilized city in the ,st. IL
has its pecparities-its vulgarsms but it is very free
| from foreign words The Turkish is acknowledged a
collection Of Heterogeneous elements tho Kurdish is
ptaHp with sCrtaa add nd
the Syriac itself is tainted With poor Turkish, kurd
ih Persian and Arabic. This is the land of Babel,
and we obliged to have with on this journey of
few days some one who can communicate with peO-
pie speaking Arabic, Fellahi, Kurdish and Persian.
Whowurzan is Surrounded by fields Of rice and cot.
ton, and the irrigation of the country renders the peo
pie very subject to intermittents. While there four
patients were brought to me with enlarged speens-
all Of them were young men, yet they wore the
wrinkled and troubled countenances Of the anxious
man of sixty
We rode on an hour and half toward evening" and
encemped near riyulet lined with willows-one of
the few objects in these parts reminding the American
traveller Of New England. Huge dogs OF the Persian
stock howled at us on our arrival and dew from one
OF our red coated guards blow for vager who did
not exert himself to stop them. The Hytas or rreg-
uar soldiery in the Turkish provinces are very cruel
10 the people among whom they travel obligng them
to feed them and their horses gratis and this although
they have their regular pay from Government and al
ways expect present for any special service they NAV
Sultan
We were up on the 10th at A NJ. and succeeded
ID getting under way after two hours spent in cook
ing, feeding the animals, packing and striking the
tent Passing several villages and mounds we reached
Meika Jamah little after sunrise. This is the only
village have seen built of long reeds plastered in-
SIDE with clay and matched with coarse grass. We
entered the dirty hole, where we were compelled 10
pass the heat Of the day, while host of vermn tor
mented us go that the tired and sick OF our number
we've anxious that some Madam Pfeer should see their
condition end know better than the wandering Ida,