He was, however, advised by Dr.Grant to cultivate the friendship of the Emir.

Further than this Dr.Grant would not interfere, being, fully resolved not to meddle with their political relations.

A secret correspondence of the Patriarch with the Turkish Pasha, when discovered, cost him the favor of the Emir; and it soon became apparent that the Turks, whatever their pretensions, were resolved upon nothing short of the complete subjugation of his people.

It was but too evident, also, to his missionary friend, that the Patriarch was himself more concerned for their political, than for their religious and moral condition.
Amadia, on the western frontier of the Nestorians, had now surrendered to the Turks; and the war on that side of the mountains being ended, Mr.Hinsdale left Mosul on the last day of September, and in eight days was at Asheta.

The prospect from the summit on the western side of the valley was of singular beauty.