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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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habourwith her tribe, and it was probably on this account that Ra-thaiyah, knowing the direction he was about to take, was soanxious to accompany her husband. She rode on the drome-dary behind her lord, a comfortable seat having been madefor her with a rug and a coverlet. The Sheikh carried hishawk, Hattab, on his wrist, guiding the deloul by a shorthooked stick held inthe right hand. Klioraif, his redifif, rode • Amongst the inhabitants of towns, a daughter is considered a kindof flaw in the family, and the death of a girl, too frequently purposelybrought about, is rarely a cause of grief. IV.) SUTTUM AND HIS WIFE. 109 on this occasion a second dromedary named Sheiala, with aShammar Bedouin. The true Sinjar mountain ends about nine miles from Je-daila, the high ridge suddenly subsiding into low broken hills.From all parts of the plain it is a very beautiful object. Itslimestone rocks, wooded here and there with dwarf oak, areof a rich golden colour; and the numberless ravines which
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Suttum, v/ith his Wife^ on his Dromedary. furrow its sides, form ribs of deep purple shadow. The west-tern part of the Sinjar is inhabited by the Yezidi tribe ofKherraniyah. We rode over the plain in a line parallel tothe mountain, and about seven or eight miles from it. To-wards nightfall we skirted a ridge of very low hills rising toour left. They are called Alouvi and Yusuf Beg. no NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. The desert abounded in the houbara, or middle-sized bus-tard, the bird usually hawked by the Arabs, and esteemed bythem a great delicacy. Hattab, the falcon, had been princi-pally trained to this game, and sat on the raised wrist of Sut-tum, scanning the plain with his piercing eye. He saw thecrouching quarry long before we could distinguish it, andspreading his wings struggled to release himself from thetresses. Once free he made one straight, steady swoop to-wards the bustard, which rose to meet the coming foe, butwas soon borne down in his sharp talons. A combat ensued,whic

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