"It is curious how soon people of warm climates,--or, in fact, I may say,--all uneducated people, succumb to sickness. Hardy fellows, apparently as strong as iron: when attacked they lie down, wrap a coat or cloak around them, and resign themselves to suffer. It would seem that the mind is alone able to rise superior to disease: their minds, uncultivated, by disuse weak, or in perfect alliance with the body, cease to exist when its companion falls. In intellectual man the mind is the last to succumb: long after the poor weak body has yielded, the mind holds out like a well-garrisoned citadel: it refuses all surrender, and, though the town is taken, fights bravely till the last." And now one glimpse at Koordistan and the beautiful and mysterious Lake Van, which lies hidden in its deepest recesses. "We now journeyed on through strange regions, where Frank had never wandered. We saw the Koords as they are best seen, free in their own magnificent mountains;--not "the ass," as the Turk calls him, "of the plains." Mahomet Pasha, son of the little standard-bearer, and Pasha of Mosul was requested to provide for its defence by the consuls, and to attempt by better rule the civilisation of the Arabs. He replied:-- 'Erkekler Densige Allar genisig Kurytar Donsig Devekler Yoolarsig.' "'What can I do with people whose men have no religion, whose women are without drawers, their horses without bits, and their camels without halters?' "Thus we wandered over many miles, plains spreading between their fat mountains, splendid in their grandeur; now amidst pleasant valleys anon over giant passes-- ----'Dim retreat, For fear and melancholy meet; Where rocks were rudely heaped and rent, As by a spirit turbulent; Where sights were rough, and sounds were wild, And everything unreconciled.'