These Turkish officers you see are prisoners we have taken on our way.

Behold, we have also a German prisoner! You will find all the Turks between here and Syria in a state of panic, and if plunder is what you desire you would better make haste and get what you can before the great armies come eating the land like locusts! Plunder the Turks and prove yourselves the friends of French and English!" Sahib, those Kurds would rather loot than go to heaven, and, like all wild people, they are very credulous.

There are Kurds and Kurds and Kurds, nations within a nation, speaking many dialects of one tongue.

Some of them are half-tame and live on the plains; those the Turks are able to draft into their armies to some extent.

Some of the plainsmen, like those I speak of now, are altogether wild and will not serve the Turks on any terms.