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From this point goods were taken by caravan through Kurdistan to Tabriz, the great northern capital of Persia, and thence westward either to the Black Sea or to Layas on the Mediterranean.
They contain the very best blood in Asia, and comprise the pick of the finest horses in Arabia, Persia, Kurdistan, Karadagh, Khorasan, and the Turkoman country, also the choicest home-breds from the horse-farms belonging to the late Shah and his sons, the present Shah and the Zil-es-Sultan, all of them great horse fanciers and breeders.
They were darker, taller, fiercer, and more resolute than any of the scattered inhabitants of the valleys of Kurdistan; and they took to themselves wives, and became fathers of the seven tribes of the Kurdmans, whose valour is known throughout the universe."
But an arrogant diplomacy swept all warnings aside and scorned the Moslem menace as a bogey. What was the result? Troubles in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and the Khilifat movement in India. Hindu agitators were not slow to exploit Moslem bitterness, and for the first time there was a genuine, if very ephemeral, entente between the two great rival creeds.
This is sweet water, indeed sweet as the water of Sheoran when it comes from the snows. They are all well and pleased in the North Khoda Baksh and the others. Yar Khan has come down with the horses from Kurdistan six and thirty head only, and a full half pack-ponies and has said openly in the Kashmir Serai that you English should send guns and blow the Amir into Hell.
She started with the caravan on the 8th of July, and next day crossed the hills that intervene between Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The latter country has never enjoyed a good reputation among travellers; and Madame Pfeiffer's experience was not calculated to retrieve its character.
Mason, op. cit. p. 24. Cont. North American Ethnology, Vol. III, p. 167. Mrs. Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, cited by H. Ellis, op. cit., p. 6. Jour. Anthrop. Inst., Vol. I, p. 190. “Magic Songs of the Finns,” Folk-lore, Mar. 1892. It would be easy to go on almost indefinitely multiplying examples of the industries of primitive women.
This district was known to the ancients as Zagros, while in modern geography it bears the names of Kurdistan and Luristan. It has always been inhabited by a multitude of warlike tribes, and has rarely formed for any long period a portion of any settled monarchy.
Syria was defended by the Euphrates at all times a strong barrier; Arabia, not only by this great stream, but by her arid sands and burning climate; Armenia and Kurdistan had the protection of their lofty mountain ranges.
King, who has also been fortunate enough to find a number of hitherto unknown inscriptions in Kurdistan on the Judi Dagh and at the sources of the Tigris. The inscriptions at the mouth of the Nahr el-Kelb, "the Dog River," in Syria, have been reexamined by Dr.
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