Mar Shimon was then a guest of Suleiman Bey, in the castle of Julamerk, and with him they spent ten days.

Nurullah Bey had gone to Erzroom to negotiate for the subjugation of the Independent Nestorians to the Turkish rule, having already relinquished his own personal independence, and become a Pasha of the empire.

Suleiman Bey was a relative of the Emir, and had been the leader of the party that murdered Mr.
Schultz.

He showed special kindness to Dr.Grant.His mother and sister, as also the sister and mother of the Patriarch, with womanly forethought, loaded the Doctor with supplies for the inhospitable road before them.

He found the Emir at Van on his return home, and discovered what had been the object of his journey to Erzroom.