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