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they all go away, except it please the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to order any particular person,
with whom he may have business, to stop. It seems the grandeur of the
Bahdinan Prince to render himself as inaccessible and invisible as possible.
The Bebbeh Chief, on the contrary, is expected to make himself as public
as he can, and he has, indeed, seldom an hour to himself.
Some of the Bahdinan Princes have even covered their heads with a veil
whenever they rode out, that no profane eye might see their countenance;
and this we learn from Benjamin of Tudela was the practice of the later
Caliphs of Baghdad. The uniform of the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's own officers and servants
is a black jacket made of abba stuff, manufactured at Mvisal, with gold
frogs. All wear the many coloured striped trowsers which are the supreme
bonton in Amadia and Julamerik.
The Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , when he goes a hunting, changes his dress at a hunting-box
of his, near Amadia, for one of a mountaineer of lower rank, in which he
clambers the cliffs and lies in wait for the wild goat, observing never to
shoot one younger than four years. Their age is easily recognized by the
practised eye, even at a distance, by their horns. This and snaring, shoot
ing or hawking the red-legged partridge is the only sport in the territory
of Amadia, which is too mountainous to admit of exercise on horseback.
BAIATS—
A tribe of Turkmans, who inhabit the plain of this name to the west of
Kufri. The tribe was formerly more powerful, but when Nadar Shah
invaded the country he swept away the Baiats to Khorasan, and those who
remain are descended from the Chief's family. They can even now turn out
1,000 horsemen. They have also some Arabs and broken tribes under their
protection. Their horses are much esteemed. The district they inhabit was
given them as a gift by the Sultan, and they pay nothing to the Ottoman
Government, only owing military service to the Province of Baghdad when
he takes the field in person. [Rich.)
BAIBCRT—Lat. Long. Elev.
A town in Province of Arzrnm, Asiatic Turkey, 82 miles west by north
of Arzrum, on right bank of the Chorak River, about half-way between
Arzrum and Tarablzun.
It is irregular and ill-built, occupying the base of an insulated hill, on the
summit of which is an ancient castle fortified by an outer wall which descends
far down the hill. The outer encienie is in a dilapidated condition, but the
inner wall of sand-stone is still entire and consists of an irregular line flanked
by small angles, semi-circles, and here and there a bastion of diminutive
dimensions. Of the interior defences, three square towers, one in the centre
and one at each extremity of the fort, remain standing amidst a heap of
ruined buildings. Round the town are situated in the banks of the river
many picturesque gardens.
The castle of Baiburt was one of the strongholds belonging to the
Sovereigns of Armenia. The ruins, which cover a considerable extent of
ground, display much beautiful masonry, while the numerous towers of all
forms with which the walls were strengthened are remarkably well built.
The fall of snow here in winter is so great as to interrupt communication
with the neighbouring villages for months together, cow-dung baked in the
sun being the only fuel of the poor classes. The inhabitants are described
as a stout, active, hardy race, of mild and civil manners. Stuart says it