"استطلاعات في بلاد الرافدين وكردستان وشمال غرب بلاد فارس ولرستان في الفترة من أبريل إلى أكتوبر ١٨٨٨، كتبها المقدم ف. ر. مونسيل، فرع الاستخبارات. يوجد مجلدان. المجلد الأول: تقرير سردي ووصف للمدن الكبرى والطرق المؤدية منها. شيملا: فرع الاستخبارات، إدارة قائد الإمداد والتموين، ١٨٩٠" [و‎‎٩‎٥] (٣١٢/١٩٤)

Tlipiv official relations with Government are, however, still carried on
through the United Armenian Patriarch at Constantinople. ^
New Chaldeans .—This is an isolated Catholic communion which has seced
ed from Rome and is now under a Mattran, Mar hua Melus.
Of the six Chaldean Churches in Mosul (which all belonged to Rome in
1873) four are the property of this Church. ^ . .
Many of the chief families of Mosul, including Mr. Rassam, the Unglisn
Vice-Consul, are of this sect. „ i o i r
Talkaif is now mostly independent. In other villages, Alkosh, lal wuslcot,
Batnaia, the churches are in the hands of the Romans and the inhabitants
owing to pressure have outwardly conformed. Two monasteries, Mar JCia
and Mar Michael, have renounced Rome, and twelve Mosul priests are unaer
the jurisdiction of Mar Elia Meins.
A printing press is attached to one of the churches.
A Bishop, Mar Audishu, is under Mar Elia, in charge of a similar separated
Church on the Malabar coast of India.
The total number of Nestorians and Chaldeans of all sects is about 150,000,
some estimates placing the number at 200 , 000 .
JACOBITES.
This Christian sect owes its name to Jacobus Baradeus, Bishop of
Edessa (Urfa), who, in A.D. 45 , led away a large sect of the church they
adhered to the heresy of the one nature and one person of Christ after it had
been condemned by the Council of Chalcedon.
They are now settled principally in Jabal Tor, or Tor Abdin, between Mar-
din and Jazirah, with some detached portions in Mosul. The Patriarch lives
at Deir Zafferan, 6 miles east of Mardin.
There are 11 Bishops at present distributed as follows :
(1) At Mai din, besides the Patriarch.
(2) Constantinople.
(3) Diarbekr.
(4) Urfa.
(5) Sis in the Jabal Tor.
( 6 ) Jerusalem.
(7) Antioch.
( 8 ) India.
There are three others who move from place to place, and each has from
12 to 15 priests and deacons under him. On Jabal Maklub is the Monast
ery of Mar Mattei, where are several cells cut out of the rock in which
the monks live.
There are 500 houses of Jacobites in Mosul and several in Mardin, Diarbekr,
Antioch, Aleppo and Damascus.
There are 200 houses in Jerusalem and detached portions of the sect in
Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta. On the Malabar Coast, in India, they are
said to number 20,000. Young priests come over here to be educated and
ordained.
Between Jazirah and Mardin are several Jacobite villages and also a colony
round Urfa. Their total numbers are estimated at about 60,000 now, but the
community is very much scattered.
YEZIDIS.
Yezidis, or Devil Worshippers as they are sometimes called, are chiefly
remarkable for the peculiarity of their religion, which includes theories based
on Zoroastrian doctrines mingled with Christian, Musalman and idolatrous
traditions.