[419] Cf. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Armenia, Vol. II, p. 152 (by W. F. Ainsworth, London, 1842).

[420] Les Missions Catholiques Françaises au XIXe Siècle, Tom. I, p. 223, et seq. (Paris, 1900).

[421] Cf. Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman, Tom. I, p. 172 et seq. (by the Vicomte De la Jonquière, Paris, 1914).

[422] Du Caucasus au Golfe Persique à travers l’Arménie, le Kurdistan et la Mesopotamie, p. 458 et seq. (by P. Müller-Simonis and H. Hyvernat, Washington, 1892).

[423] See the interesting work of Mme. Dieulafoy on La Perse, la Chaldée et la Susiane, p. 576 et seq. (Paris, 1887).

[424] Turquie Agonisante, p. 137 (Paris, 1913).

[425] Baghdad during the Abbassid Caliphate from Contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources, pp. 12–14 (by G. Le Strange, Oxford, 1900).

[426] Le Strange, op. cit., p. 64 et seq.

[427] Le Strange, op. cit., p. 71.

[428] The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Vol. I, p. 63 (translated and edited by H. Yule, London, 1903).