[26] Both he and his brother died.
[27] Most of them were driven back by the increase of the waters without.
[28] I have heard of eight thus buried in one house, or rather belonging to one family, the remains of which are come to reside next us in a house, where those who had the charge of it are dead.
[29] Those two died.
[30] This servant was an old servant of Mrs. R.’s, and came out with us, and was much attached to dear Mary.
[31] Constantinople.
[32] It is on account of the great heat in the summer that the houses in Bagdad are built with flat roofs, to which the inhabitants all move up at sunset, to dine and spend the night.
[33] All these reports were mere fables, got up for the purpose of deceiving the people.
[34] We heard afterwards that the state of his health and the lawlessness of the city prevented his getting access to his treasure.
[35] Karakoosh is a small town within twelve miles of Mosul, containing about nine hundred houses, inhabited entirely by Syrian or Jacobite Christians, many of whom are become Roman Catholics. They speak Syriac, but so corrupted, that it is with great difficulty they understand the Syriac of the Scriptures. There are seven churches, four of which belong to the Roman Catholics, and the remainder to the Jacobites. The road between Karakoosh and Mosul, passes through the striking remains of Nineveh.