348 Notices of Koordistan. 
in two campaigns against them by Badr Khan Bey, chief of 
Buhtan, who resides near Jesireh, on the 'Tigris—which disturb- 
ances have rendered the passage of the mountains unsafe and 
even dangerous for all travellers. 
B. K. Bey, however, needed medical advice, and made an ur- 
gent request, through his neighbor Noor Ali Khan, the Hakkary 
chief, residing at Julamerk, and directly through the Governor of 
oomiah, that Dr. Wright should make him a professional visit, 
assuring him of “every practicable means for his security on the 
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journey. 
Accordingly, on the 4th of May last, accompanied by Mr. 
Breath, of the Mission, two native assistants and a guide, Dr. 
Wright commenced his journey, and lodged at night in an en- 
campment of Koords, by the roadside. ‘The next day, the 5th, 
they came to the fort of Ali Aga, a Koordish chief, who resides on 
the frontiers of Koordistan, and who hospitably entertained them; 
and when they left on the following morning, he gave them a 
London thermometer. Having crossed a high range of moun- 
tains, they reached Hoshgan, a small Koordish village, on the 
6th. The 7th being rainy, they rode but two hours to a place 
called “the Four Churches,” and on the 8th, spent the night at 
Kerme. The next day, the 9th, about noon, they arrived at the | 
castle of the chief, at Julamerk. 
Here “they were detained thirteen days, it being reported that 
the mountains beyond were still covered with snow, and that it 
would be impossible to pass them for some time to come.” ‘The 
