Colonel Churchill, _Druzes and Maronites_, p. 219. London: Quaritch, 1862. Footnote 38: Eugene Schuyler and Correspondent MacGahan, quoted in _The Independent_, January 10, 1895. Footnote 39: Chapter I. of this book. Footnote 40: M. Gaston Deschamps: “En Turquie—L’Ile de Chio,” _Revue des Deux Mondes_, p. 167, January 1, 1893. Footnote 41: Layard’s _Nineveh_, pp. 24–201. Footnote 42: Article by Mr. Savage, _The Independent_, January 10, 1894. Footnote 43: U. S. Consul Stillman’s _The Cretan Insurrection of 1866–7–8_. Henry Holt & Co., 1874. Footnote 44: C. B. Norman, _Armenia and the Campaign of 1877_, pp. 293–298. London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1879. Footnote 45: _The Independent_, January 17, 1895. Footnote 46: _Ibid._, January 31, 1895. Footnote 47: _The Eastern Question._ Footnote 48: _New Review_ for January, 1895. Footnote 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. Footnote 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. Footnote 51: _The Turks in Europe._ Footnote 52: _The London Times_, Weekly Edition Jan. 14, 1895. Footnote 53: Reprinted from _The Christian Register_, Boston, Dec. 1, 1894. Footnote 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. Footnote 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.” Footnote 56: Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, _Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan_, 2 vols. New York: Putnam’s, 1891. London: John Murray. Footnote 57: Gen. x., 2, 3. Footnote 58: Moses of Khorene, _History_, Bk. i., chap. 12. Footnote 59: Gen. viii., 4. Footnote 60: Heb. Ararat, 2 Kings xix., 37; Isa. xxxvii., 38. Footnote 61: Ezek. xxvii., 14; also xxxviii., 6. Footnote 62: Jer. li., 27–29; also l., 9, 41, 42. Footnote 63: Christian Lassen, _Die altpersischen Keil-Inschriften von Persepolis_, Bonn, 1836, pp. 86, 87. Footnote 64: _History_, Bk. iii., chap. 93. Footnote 65: _Anabasis_, Bk. iv. Footnote 66: _Annales_, Bk. ii., ch. 56. Footnote 67: Tozer, _The Church and the Eastern Empire_, pp. 22, 86. Footnote 68: