Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
CHAPTER IV.
State of the Excavations on my Return to Mosul.--Discoveries at Kouyunjik.--Tunnels in the Mound.--Bas-reliefs representing Assyrian Conquests.--A Well.--Siege of a City.--Nature of Sculptures at Kouyunjik.--Arrangement for Renewal of Excavations.--Description of Mound.--Kiamil Pasha.--Visit to Sheikh Adi.--Yezidi Ceremonies.--Sheikh Jindi.--Yezidi Meeting.--Dress of the Women.--Bavian.--Doctrines of the Yezidi.--Jerraiyah.--Return to Mosul 61