[25] The Kurds call it Haoril and occasionally Haolir.
[26] Formerly one of the most famous and powerful families of southern Kurdistan.
[27] Ragozin’s Assyria, p. 161.
[28] The Iman Ali, termed only by the Shi’a or Persian Muhammadans, “Lord of the Faithful.”
[29] This action is an abbreviation of the compound wave, which apparently beginning by lifting imaginary dust, places it upon the mouth, eyes, and head.
[30] Persian translation of the last line:—
“Kurdi guz i khar ast.”
[31] Lest this statement seem unwarrantable, I beg to support it by the opinion of the Chaldeans themselves. They are in most cases fully aware of the circumstances under which their forbears—and contemporaries—became absorbed into the Roman Catholic Church, and there are very few of them whom I ever heard express any sentiment upon the matter save deep regret, the more so that they know now that it was possible to have the much-prized education the Roman Catholics supply without a disintegration of their Church, for the Archbishop of Canterbury’s mission has taught them that.
[32] “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, and he carried them into the land of Shinar.”—Daniel i. 1–2.
[33] A little editing was unavoidable here, the shaikh’s words being, “Wa bir parcha pukh qaldi, va san sin.”