[89] “Birkh” in Kurdish = a lamb.
[90] One of the Shi’a axioms.
[91] The Musulman clips the “sharib,” that part of the moustache liable to dip into liquids when drunk from a cup or bowl.
[92] A famous rock in southern Kurdistan.
[93] This may not occur to the reader in Europe as anything but what must be in the nature of all, like maternal love, perhaps; but it is an unusual thing in the East, where the nearer the relative also means the greater enemy.
[94] Henry Binder, Au Kurdistan, p. 110.
[95] Millingen, Wild Life among the Koords, p. 244.
[96] Not always, however; see Layard, Nineveh, vol. i., p. 153.
[97] Also the ladies of Kerind, who each keep a little court.
[98] Layard, Nineveh, vol. i., pp. 206–7 (description of a Hakkari), 1848.