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THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS.

Places.		Sheep.	Oxen.	Muskets.	Church and house property in Tcerkhies.^[1]	Remarks.
Four villages of Walto	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	9000	1000	400	15000	^a Besides the property of Sheeno the head of this village, valued at 5000 Tcerkhies. ^b Besides 16 mules belonging to this village, as also the property of Melek Ismaeel, valued at 100,000 Tc.; and that of the chief Auraham at 7,000; and that of Samano at 4,000. ^c Besides the property of Khiyyo, valued at 50,000 Tc.; also the property of Audishu, valued at 5,000 Tc. ^d Also the property of Melek Deelo, and of the chief Zarwanda, valued severally at 4,000 and 2,000 Tc. ^e Also the property of Sulmo and Shimmon valued at 7000 Tc. ^f Besides the property of Meleks Barkho, Chicco, Hasaddo, and of the priest Jindo, valued at 8,500 Tcerkhies.
Ishté d'Nahra		5000	100	150	8000
Beth Mariggo^a		1800	50	60	9500
Mabbuaa		1500	35	64	4000
Dâdosh		4500	120	150	14000
Ko		3500	90	70	5500
Chamba^b		8000	100	200	30600
Kalayâtha		3000	80	160	16100
Athra d'Roomta^c		8000	180	400	22000
Siadhòr		1000	30	53	3500
Serspeedho		3000	150	160	8000
Asheetha		20000	1500	500	31500
Zaweetha		3000	500	160	13500
Minyânish		2500	400	140	15500
Five villages of Lagippa^d	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	18000	200	550	27000
Mâtha d'Kasra	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	16000	220	560	30000
Leezan^e
Zerni
Beth Rawolé		120	100	200	10000
Salabeken and	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	330	260	600	31500
Be-Alâtha^f		330	260	600	31500

Besides the property of Mar Shimoon, valued at 50,000 Tcerkhies.

Not one church has been left standing in either of these two districts, and scarcely a house in the above mentioned villages. All the chiefs of Tyari were killed in the massacre, besides 3,000 laymen, thirty priests, and sixty deacons. Mar Shimoon's brother Kâsha Sadok, his nephew Jesse, his mother, and many of his retainers.

After the attack upon Tyari, Noorallah Beg exacted from the mountain Nestorians the following sums:

From the province of Jelu	30,000	Tcerkhies
From the„ province of„ Bâz	15,000	do.
From the„ province of„ Tehoma	10,000	do.

↑ A Tcherkhi is about ten pence sterling.

[1] A Tcherkhi is about ten pence sterling.

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