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Title: The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback ..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, 1826-1899
Subjects: Babylonia -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d the Tigris at Feshapoor,our route lay through Upper Mesopotamia, whose fertil-ity is inexhaustible, and whose population is dense andthrifty. From the time we left Deroonah, we had passedon an average a town an hour, and nowhere else had weseen such apparent prosperity. The pastures were rich,the flocks were large and numerous, wheat and barleywere abundant, the streams and fountains were frequent,and the water was clear and delicious. As the shepherds were folding their flocks, and after aride of eleven hours, we entered the Christian village ofUznaoor. The inhabitants are Jacobite Christians, whohave not bowed the knee to Rome, and on the hill in therear of the town is their little church. We estimatedthe population at five hundred, and were impressed withthe apparent difference between a Christian and a Mo-hammedan village. In their apparel, their intelligence,their cheerfulness, their thrift, their freedom, their archi-tecture, and comfortable style of living, the Christians are
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CHRISTIAN GIKLS OF UZNAOOR. BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 415 « the superiors of their Moslem neighbors. The head-manof Uznaoor was a splendid specimen of physical man-hood, and was hospitable as he was polite. His beauti-ful daughter, a girl of fourteen, was attractively attired.Her attire consisted of a pair of shalivcu\ and a red roberesembling a surplice, the long sleeves whereof were tiedtoo-ether and thrown behind the shoulders, and securedto the waist by a narrow girdle with two large ornament-al silver clasps. Her head-dress was like an archers hel-met, made of a pointed cap, and covered with bright sil-ver coins, laid on like scales, and over it was thrown aveil of thin gauze. The helmet weighed three pounds,and was the maidens dower. Nearly all the w^omen ofthe place wore a similar head-ornament, but not half socostly. At a trifling expense, we were furnished with fresh-baked barley loaves, with sweet and sour milk, withpoultry and eggs, with apricots and pomegranates. Aswe pieferre

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