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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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tached to the Turkish troops. They declared an operationto be impossible, and refused to undertake it. The Sheikh v.) AfV DELOUL SAHAIMA. 133 applied to a barber, who in his shop, in the open bazaar,quietly cut down to the ball, and taking it out brought it tothe Pasha in a plate, to claim a reward for his skill. It istrue that the European surgeons in the service of the Porteare not very eminent in their profession. The Bedouins setbroken limbs by means of rude splints. The women suffer little in labour, which often takes placeduring a march, or when they are far from the encampmentwatering the flocks or collecting fuel. They allow their chil-dren to remain at the breast until they are nearly two andeven three years old, and, consequently, have rarely manyoffspring. Soon after our arrival at the Khabour I bought a deloul,or dromedary, as more convenient than a horse for makingexcursions in the desert. Her name was Sahaima, and shebelonged to Moghamis, the uncle of Suttum, having been
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Saddling a DelouI, or Dromedary. taken by him from the Aneyza; she was well trained, andswift and easy in her paces. The best delouls come fromNedjd and the Gebel Shammar. They are small and lightlymade, the difference between them and a common camel 134 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. being as great as that between a high-bred Arab mare andan Enghsh cart-horse. Their powers of endurance are verygreat* The deloul is much prized, and the race is carefully-preserved. The Arabs breed from them once in two years,and are very particular in the choice of the male. An ordi-nary animal can work for twenty years. Suttum assured methat they could travel in the spring as many as six days with-out water. Their colour is generally light brown and white,darker colours and black are more uncommon. Their paceis a light trot kept up for many hours together withoutfatigue; they can increase it to an unwieldy gallop, a speedthey cannot long maintain. A good deloul is Avorth at themost lo/., the common price

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