The valuable patriarchal library of manuscripts was destroyed.

When the work of destruction began, Dr.
Grant was in the southeast part of Tiary.

From thence, without returning to Asheta, where the Patriarch then was, he hastened, by way of Lezan and Amadia, to Mosul, where great fears had been entertained for his safety.

He reached Mosul on the morning of July 14, 1843, much fatigued with his journey, but in tolerably good health.
In the first invasion, Asheta and three other large villages in Tiary were spared the general destruction.

Previous to November, however, the Nestorians of these villages rose upon the Koordish governor, and wounded him; and this occasioned the destruction of these villages, and the massacre of their inhabitants.