This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...or war had carried off the villagers. The manner in which the houses are left, too, adds to this impression, for the doors are wide open and the rooms bare, as if there had not been time even to close them up. Towards sunset, after ascending by a winding path the high mountains which we had seen in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...or war had carried off the villagers. The manner in which the houses are left, too, adds to this impression, for the doors are wide open and the rooms bare, as if there had not been time even to close them up. Towards sunset, after ascending by a winding path the high mountains which we had seen in front of us for a long time, we drew rein at a group of shepherds' tents, at an altitude of nearly 6000 feet above the sea-level. The dozen or so tents that formed the little village were pitched in a small gorge leading into the narrow valley we were ascending, only a few hundred yards off the road. They were poor enough, these Kurds of the mountain-tops, merely the shepherds, in fact, tending the flocks of one, of the rich chieftains, whose village we were to visit the following day; but they welcomed us to such hospitality as it was in their means to show us, and led our horses down to graze at the edge of the stream, while they spread our carpets in the best of the tents. The usual milk and butter and cheese were brought, and a very small sum of money added a couple of fowls to our supper, and the evening passed pleasantly enough. The tent in which we passed the night was divided into two parts by a division of reed matting, one-half forming the living-room of the shepherd, his A NIGHT WITH sHEPHERDs. 203 wife and family, while the remainder sheltered the young lambs and kids, too young as yet to go a-grazing with their mothers. What a bleating there was as the herds and flocks were driven to the encampment for the night, and the little lambs turned out to seek their evening meal! What a searching of mothers for their young, and of the young for their mothers! Daylight found us well on our road, ascending toward the head of the pass, ..
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