"سرد لإقامة في كردستان وفي موقع نينوى القديمة؛ مع مذكرات رحلة إلى بغداد عبر نهر دجلة ووصف زيارة إلى شيراز وبرسبوليس." [‎٨‎٦] (٤٥٠/١١٥)

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YEZID MUSICIAN. [CII. XV.
out more in front, und is not so regularly con
structed ^ and, being covered with white linen, looks
like a pillow on the head.
The principal article of food in the territory of
Mousul, especially among the peasantry, is pilaw,
made of burgool, which is a preparation of wheat,
heavy and not agreeable to those unaccustomed to it.
Rice is scarce and dear. I believe that none is
grown in the territory, and that all that is used
is brought from Koordistan.
At night we had a musician of some celebrity
among the Yezids to entertain us. He played the
Tamboureh very fairly, and sang us some songs
of his own nation. The first was a Sinjar song,
about the carrying off of a very celebrated beauty
named Gazhala, from among the Yezids oi Sinjar,
by Hassan Pasha, father of the celebrated Ahmed
Pasha of Bagdad. She was betrothed to a Sinjar
chief, and was within three days ol her marriage,
Her beauty is still much celebrated in song by the
Sinjaris *. He next gave us the lament for Hassan
13ey, the late chief of Sheikhkhan, who was treache
rously murdered by Zebir Pasha, the late Prince of
Amadia. The present chief of Sheikhkhan is named
Saleh Bey. Like the Druzes, the Yezids com
monly choose Mahometan names. The family at
Baadli, called Mir Sheikhkhan, is of very great
* Sinjar is always called by the Koords Zingharra.