[49]. These extracts are from Blue-Book, Turkey, No. 8 (1881), pp. 57–110, as quoted by the high authority, M. Rolin-Jaequemyns, in his Armenia, the Armenians, and the Treaties, pp. 74–76. London: John Heywood, 1891.
[50]. The Hakim, who is a member of the religious body of Ulemas, presides over the lower court (Bidayet), which is to be found in every caza (hundred), and also over the Sandjak or district court.
[51]. The Turks in Europe.
[52]. The London Times, Weekly Edition Jan. 14, 1895.
[53]. Reprinted from The Christian Register, Boston, Dec. 1, 1894.
[54]. And yet England by the Cyprus Convention pledged all her resources to keep the door open, and the repetition thus made possible has occurred. Author.
[55]. “Kurdistan abounds in antiquities of the most varied and interesting character.... It may indeed be asserted that there is no region of the East at the present day which deserves a more careful scrutiny and promises a richer harvest to the antiquarian explorer than the lands inhabited by the Kurds from Erzeroum to Kirmanshahan.”—Major-General H. C. Rawlinson, Encyc. Britannica, article on “Kurdistan.”
[56]. Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, 2 vols. New York: Putnam’s, 1891. London: John Murray.
[57]. Gen. x., 2, 3.
[58]. Moses of Khorene, History, Bk. i., chap. 12.