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COPYRIGHT 2006 Kurdish Library
[We furnish our readers with an extract from the very interesting volume of travels of Mr. Southgate, in Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia, which gives an account of his first entrance among the Kurds, and of the manners of that singular people.]
We stopped for the night at Denizli, the ruins of a Kurdish village, with only a single inhabited house. From this an old Kurd came out, and greeting us with the ordinary salutation of the Mussulmans, selam aleikum (God give you peace) offered us a shelter. Wearied with our long march, we asked for a draught of milk. He replied that the cows were still abroad, and called for some one within to go in search of them. Upon this a Kurdish girl appeared, and stepping lightly forward, darted away like a phantom. As she was the first female of her race that I had seen, her appearance excited some curiosity. Here face and feet were bare, and her hair was hanging in long braids behind. Her dress was a single white frock, bound at the waist. Her form was erect and slender, and her step peculiarly light and graceful. Her face was dark, but pale and expressive, her eyes large and full. In the meanwhile our host conducted us to our lodging-place.
In reaching it, we first passed...
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