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THE NESTORIANS AND THEIR RITUALS.
Places. Sheep. Oxen. Muskets.

Church and
house property
in Tcerkhies.
[1]

Remarks.
Four villages of
Walto
 9000 1000 400 15000 a Besides the property of Sheeno the head of this village, valued at 5000 Tcerkhies.

b Besides 16 mules belonging to this village, as also the property of Melek Ismaeel, valued at 100,000 Tc.; and that of the chief Auraham at 7,000; and that of Samano at 4,000.

c Besides the property of Khiyyo, valued at 50,000 Tc.; also the property of Audishu, valued at 5,000 Tc.

d Also the property of Melek Deelo, and of the chief Zarwanda, valued severally at 4,000 and 2,000 Tc.

e Also the property of Sulmo and Shimmon valued at 7000 Tc.

f Besides the property of Meleks Barkho, Chicco, Hasaddo, and of the priest Jindo, valued at 8,500 Tcerkhies.

Ishté d'Nahra  5000  100 150  8000
Beth Mariggoa  1800   50  60  9500
Mabbuaa  1500   35  64  4000
Dâdosh  4500  120 150 14000
Ko  3500   90  70  5500
Chambab  8000  100 200 30600
Kalayâtha  3000   80 160 16100
Athra d'Roomtac  8000  180 400 22000
Siadhòr  1000   30  53  3500
Serspeedho  3000  150 160  8000
Asheetha 20000 1500 500 31500
Zaweetha  3000  500 160 13500
Minyânish  2500  400 140 15500
Five villages of
Lagippad
18000  200 550 27000
Mâtha d'Kasra
16000  220 560 30000
Leezane
Zerni
Beth Rawolé   120  100 200 10000
Salabeken and   330  260 600 31500
Be-Alâthaf

Besides the property of Mar Shimoon, valued at 50,000 Tcerkhies.

Not one church has been left standing in either of these two districts, and scarcely a house in the above mentioned villages. All the chiefs of Tyari were killed in the massacre, besides 3,000 laymen, thirty priests, and sixty deacons. Mar Shimoon's brother Kâsha Sadok, his nephew Jesse, his mother, and many of his retainers.

After the attack upon Tyari, Noorallah Beg exacted from the mountain Nestorians the following sums:

From the province of Jelu 30,000 Tcerkhies
From the province of Bâz 15,000 do.
From the province of Tehoma 10,000 do.
  1. A Tcherkhi is about ten pence sterling.