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Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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- weara ring through tlie nostril: They are even known to bear arms in cast^of need, and show great courage. Their children are good-looking andvery attractive. Tlie Kurd is above all things picturesque and self-decorative. He THE TURKS, ARMENIANS, KURDS, ETC. 48:
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I KOKDISH AJIAZON (SAEA FAT3rA\ 486 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. loves bright colours, ricli stuffs, lofty headdresses and hats, heavy girdles loaded with pistols and knives, and fine decorated spears. These are of course most generally possessed by the upper class, or nobles, who, as a rule, are of a heavier type, though fine-looking, than the lower caste, or Gurans. Their dialects are varied, but are in the main Iranian. Many are Sunnite Mahometans; but in the heart of the mountains are settlements of tribes known as Kizil- bashis, etc., still almost heathen, minghng some reverence for Mahomet- anism with regard for some supposed living incarnation of the Deity. On the whole, the Kurd in his haughtiness has a bad time of it, anda worse reputation. Neither Turks nor Persians like him, and they willbelieve any evil of Mm. He is certainly given to plunderingexpeditions, and to attacking and maltreating Christians inparticular. Yet within their own borders the Kurds are true and hospit-able

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  • booksubject:Civilization
  • booksubject:Culture
  • bookpublisher:London_Ward__Lock
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  • bookleafnumber:498
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