Identifier: mesopotamiaassyr00fras (find matches)
Title: Mesopotamia and Assyria, from the earliest ages to the present time; with illustrations of their natural history.
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Fraser, James Baillie, 1783-1856
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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be everywhere obtained near the surface, and which inspring and early summer are covered with a rich verdure.That which was the scene of this disaster is to be seenabout fifteen miles to the south of modern Bussora, and isstill known as the Wadi ul Nissa, or the Vale of Wom-en, the name vvhich it received upon that fatal occasion.A catastrophe of a like nature, though confined to thefate of an individual, was witnessed not many years agoby an English traveller, w^ho had chanced to become aguest in the tent of a sheik of the Beni Lam Arabs, as hewas journeying through Kuzistan. In the absence of thechief, the honours v/ere done to him by his daughter, ayoung woman, the only resident in the tent. Towardsmorning the stranger was roused from his sleep by shrieks,and soon distinguished the voice of his young hostess ex-claiming that she was murdered. All rushed to the spot,where they found the unfortunate girl in the agonies ofdeath, her breast pierced in three places with a dagger. Mi^^ip
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