Preparations for a Journey to the Khabour.--Sculptures discovered there.--Sheikh Suttum.--His Rediff.--Departure from Mosul.--First Encampment.--Abou Khameera.--A Storm.--Tel Ermah.--A Stranger.--Tel Jemal.--The Chief of Tel Afer.--A Sunset in the Desert.--A Jebour Encampment.--The Belled Sinjar.--The Sinjar Hill.--Mirkan.--Bukra.--The dress of the Yezidis.--The Shomal.--Ossofa.--Aldina.--Return to the Belled.--A Snake-Charmer.--Journey continued in the Desert.-- Rishwan.--Encampment of the Boraij.--Dress of Arab Women.-- Rathaiyah.--A Deputation from the Yezidis.--Arab Encampments.-- The Khabour.--Mohammed Emin.--Arrival at Arban 195 CHAPTER XII. Arban.--Our Encampment.--Suttum and Mohammed Emin.--Winged Bulls discovered.--Excavations commenced.--Their Results.-- Discovery of Small Objects--of Second Pair of Winged Bulls.--of Lion--of Chinese Bottle--of Vase--of Egyptian Scarabs--of Tombs.--The Scene of the Captivity 225 CHAPTER XIII. Residence at Arban.--Mohammed Emin's Tent.--The Agaydat.--our Tents.--Bread-baking.--Food of the Bedouins.--Thin Bread.--The Produce of their Flocks.--Diseases amongst them.--Their Remedies.--The Deloul or Dromedary.--Bedouin Warfare.--Suttum's First Wife.--A Storm.--Turtles.--Lions.--A Bedouin Robber.-- Beavers.--Ride to Ledjmiyat--A Plundering Expedition.--Loss of a Hawk.--Ruins of Shemshani.--Return to Arban.--Visit to Moghamis 237 CHAPTER XIV. Leave Arban.--The Banks of the Khabour.--Artificial Mounds.-- Mijwell.--The Cadi of the Bedouins.--The _Thar_ or Blood-Revenge.--Caution of Arabs.--A natural Cavern.--An extinct volcano.--The Confluents of the Khabour.--Bedouin Marks.--Suleiman Agha.--Encampment at Um-Jerjeh.--The Turkish Irregular Cavalry.--Mound of Mijdel.--Ruins on the Khabour.-- Mohammed Emin leaves us.--Visit to Kurdish Tents and Harem.-- The Milli Kurds.--The Family of Rishwan.--Arab Love-making.-- The Dakheel.--Bedouin Poets and Poetry.--Turkish Cavalry Horses 252 CHAPTER XV. Departure from the Khabour.--Arab Sagacity.--The Hol.--The Lake of Khatouniyah.--Return of Suttum.--Encampment of the Shammar.--Arab Horses--their Breeds--their Value--their Speed.--Sheikh Ferhan.--Yezidi Villages.--Falcons.--An Alarm.-- Abou Maria.--Eski Mosul.--Arrival at Mosul.--Return of Suttum to the Desert 268 CHAPTER XVI.