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Identifier: ninevehbabylonna00laya (find matches)
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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ocietyof ladies, and during the whole of our journey he nevercommitted a breach of good manners. As a companionhe was delightful, — full of anecdote, of unclouded spirits,acquainted with the history of every Bedouin tribe, theirpolitics and their wars, and intimate with every part of thedesert, its productions and its inhabitants. Many happyhours I spent with him, seated, after the sun went down, ona mound overlooking the great plain and the winding river,listening to the rich flow of his graceful Bedouin dialect, tohis eloquent stories of Arab life, and to his animated de-scriptions of forays, wars, and single combats. Mohammed Emin the Sheikh of the Jebours, was a good v.) MOHAMMED EM IN. 119 natured portly Arab, in intelligence greatly inferior to vSuttum,and wanting many of the qualities of the pure Bedouin.During our intercourse I had every reason to be satisfiedwith his hospitality and the cordial aid he afforded me. Hischief fault was a habit of begging for everything. Always
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Sheikh Mohammed Emin. willing to give he was equally ready to receive. In this re-spect, however, all Arabs are alike ; and, when the habit isunderstood, it is no longer a source of inconvenience, as ona refusal no offence is taken. The Jebour chief was a com-plete patriarch in his tribe, having no less than sixteen chil- 120 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. dren, of whom six sons were horsemen and the owners ofmares. The youngest, a boy of four years old, named Sultan,was his favourite. His usual costume consisted simply of ared Turkish skull cap, or fez. He scarcely ever left his father,who always brought the child with him when he came to ourtent. He was as handsome and dirty as the best of Arabchildren. His mother, who had recently died, was the beau-tiful sister of Abdrubbou. I chanced to be her brothersguest when the news of her death was brought to him. AnArab of the tribe, weary and wayworn, entered the tent andseated himself without giving the usual salutation ; all presentknew th

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  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Layard__Austen_Henry__Sir__1817_1894
  • booksubject:Nineveh__Extinct_city_
  • booksubject:Babylon__Extinct_city_
  • booksubject:Middle_East____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:London___J__Murray
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  • bookleafnumber:180
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