'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎276] (311/450)

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RUIN'S OF KIUSIIK I ZENGHI.
a better condition, such as the remains of a hainaum
and a mosque, which was built by Suliman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ,
the grandlather of Abdurrahman, Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Suli-
mania, and in which we took up our quarters. It
was the first time its walls had ever heard the name
of Christ invoked.
Northward, and a few hundred yards from the
village, we remarked a high square mount, called
Kalan Tepessi, with a small one adjoining it. It
looked like a Babylonian temple. No bricks are
dug out here, but many on the other side of the
village, among mounds of ruins, called Khist-ken, or
the place where bricks are dug out. There has evi
dently been an ancient town here.
Hie air of these low grounds is reckoned very un
wholesome, owing to the morass and quantity of
water. A couple of miles to the west of Zengabad
is Manativa, another similar village, embosomed in
date-irees, the air oi which is particularly unwhole
some. There are many other villages in this district,
but they are merely an assemblage of wretched mud
huts, thatched with reeds.
W e suffered this day greatly from the heat. I
felt more fatigued alter a march of three hours than
I have often done after one of ten.
TV e left Zengabad a little before seven, and at
nine came to Kiushk i Zenghi, which appears to
have been named from the Atabeks, where we heard
there were ruins. We found them very insigni-