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ARRIVAL AT DIARBEKIR.
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Three days' easy travelling brought us to Diarbekir, where we were welcomed by Khawaja Bedosh, the most respectable Chaldean merchant in the place, to whom we had received letters of recommendation from Mr. Rassam. We remained several days under his hospitable roof, holding constant intercourse with the Christian clergy, for an account of which, as well as for a description of the road between Mardeen and Diarbekir, I must refer my readers to the narrative of our outward journey.