id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433081591152 Buckingham, James Silk Travels in Mesopotamia : including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin & Mousul : with researches on the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and other ancient cities by J. S. Buckingham 1827 .txt text/plain 94387 4559 74 As it was thought that Hadjee Abd-elRakhmān was a person of too great respectability to accept for himself any sum of money, Before us, we had an extensive plain, watered by a small stream near our halting-place, It was noon when we reached a small village, of a round form, called Waadi Sajoor, The young man gained the tent of a powerful friend, the chief of another tribe, encamped near them, and told his story ; begging that occurred to us new in these days' travel, was a particular way used by the country people in gathering their corn : practice in all places of the East that I have seen, and the reason is, that they may lose none of their straw, which is generally very short, and necessary for the sustenance of their the south-west, by a high hill, nearly overlooking the town, and crowned with the walls of a ./cache/nyp.33433081591152.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433081591152.txt