[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. CHAPTER XII 20/24
It was presented by Dr.Grant to the library of the American Board, and is now there. His next sojourn was in the castle of Nurullah Bey, chief of the independent Hakary Koords, two days from the residence of the Patriarch.
The Bey was very sick; and becoming impatient under the slow operation of the medicine given him by the doctor, he sent a messenger for him at midnight.
"The sentinels upon the ramparts," says Dr.Grant, "were sounding the watch-cry in the rough tones of their native Koordish.
We entered the outer court through wide, iron-cased folding-doors.
A second iron door opened into a long dark alley, which conducted to the room where the chief was lying.
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