CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAQK
GLIMPSE, GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIRD'S-EYB, OF MR. KHEA'S FUTURE HOME / 9
HIGHLAND TENNESSEE / 16
NEW YORK AND ON THE WING / 22
OCEAN LIFE AND LETTERS / 30
ARRIVAL IN PERSIA—FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE VILLAGES, PEOPLE AND CITY OF OROOMIAH / 50
RENEWED CONSECRATION. HE THAT IS HOLY LET HIM BE HOLY STILL / 62
FIRST MOUNTAIN TOUR / 66
AMERICANS AT HOME IN KOORDISTAN / 74
FIRST WINTER IN GAWAR / 87
THE STORM BURSTS / 112
VISITS MOSUL—EXPLORES THE MOUNTAINS / 141
MOUNTAIN LIFE WITH MR. CRANE / 156
MARRIAGE—THE SACRED UNION / 175
DURING THE CRIMEAN AND PERSIAN WARS—DRIVEN PROM THE MOUNTAINS / 196
UP AGAIN TO THE MOUNTAIN POST—AMERICAN LADIES EXPLORE THE WILDEST RECESSES OF KOORDISTAN / 209
AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN / 225
ALONG THE TIGRIG—OVER TO PERSIA—BACK TO AMIDIAH—AGAIN TO PERSIA / 242
VISIT TO AMERICA / 255
RETURN TO PERSIA / 267
A NEW PIELD AND NEW LABORS / 279
HELP EOR THE OPPRESSED / 291
HOME INFLUENCES / 306
EVENING LABORS / 324
ALI SHAH / 336
CLOSING SCENES / 350
HIS CHARACTER / 353
VOICES OF THE NESTORIANS / 363
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1._MAP OF TURKEY AND PERSIA Frontispiece.
2.—MAP OF THE NESTORIAN COUNTRY do.
3.—ARAB ENCAMPMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA / II
4.—LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE / 16
5.—TREBIZOND / 40
6.—ARMENIAN PATRIARCH / 44
7.—ARMENIAN PRIEST / 45
8.—ARMENIAN BISHOP / 47
9.—PLAIN OF OROOMIAH FROM MOUNTSEIR / 53
10.—SEIR GATE OF OROOMIAH / 56
11.—TILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF KOORDISTAN / 81
12.—NESTORIANS / 109
13,—KOORDS OF THE MOUNTAINS / 111
14.—KOYUNJIK—NINEYEH / 147
15,—STATUE OF A KING, FROM TEMPLE AT NIMROOD / 149
16,—THE TAKTEREWAN IN THE MOUNTAINS / 166
17,—AN ARAB SHEIK / 172
18.—KOORDISH WOMEN AT THE SPRING / 202
19.—TENTS FOR THE TOUR IN KOORDISTAN / 215
20.—MISSIONARY LADY AND MOUNTAIN NESTORIAN WOMEN / 218
21.—KOORDISH SHEPHERD OF THE MOUNTAINS, IN FELT COAT / 224
22.—KELEK, OR RAFT OF GOAT-SKINS, ON THE TIGRIS / 237
23.—KOORDISH CASTLE OF KOSH-AB, MAHMOODIYAH / 241
24.—BEDOUIN SHEIK AND WIFE ON DROMEDARY / 254
25.—ERZEROOM / 273
26.—ARARAT / 275
27.—TRAVELING IN PERSIA IN THE CAJAVAH / 279
28.—MOUNT SEIR, MISSION. PREMISES / 309
29.—A PERSIAN JOURNEY: CHILDREN IN BASKETS / 338 | 
