The journey occupied him five days, by way of Zakhu and Jezireh.

The castle of the chief lay sixteen or eighteen miles northeast of Jezireh, in a pass among the mountains.

He found there his old friend, of Koordish sincerity, Nurullah Bey, who had come to engage the Buhtan chief in the subjugation of the Nestorians.

The fearless missionary spent ten days with these "deceitful and bloody" men.

They made no concealment of their designs upon the Nestorians, but promised safety and protection to the mission-house and property at Asheta.
The successful attack soon after made on the hitherto independent Nestorians, appears to have had its origin in the Turkish government.