. Across Asia Minor on foot . is^.^^1. Roadhulc Toml), M;ii-sovnn Entering Amasia. 65 CHAPTER VII. On Marsovan plain — A conquerors saying — Achmet a Bulgarianmohadji—Charcoal-burners — A singular ravine — The making ofpekmez—An ominous noise—Amasia the most picturesque city inAsia Minor—Its precipices and river—Choosing a meal—Kabob—Moonrise, singing, and drums. Before we left Marsovan Achmet stipulated for alimit to the distance he was to go. He would goto Sivas, about a hundred and fifty miles, but notfarther, fearing that if he did, snow might preventhis return until the spring. Hi
. Across Asia Minor on foot . is^.^^1. Roadhulc Toml), M;ii-sovnn Entering Amasia. 65 CHAPTER VII. On Marsovan plain — A conquerors saying — Achmet a Bulgarianmohadji—Charcoal-burners — A singular ravine — The making ofpekmez—An ominous noise—Amasia the most picturesque city inAsia Minor—Its precipices and river—Choosing a meal—Kabob—Moonrise, singing, and drums. Before we left Marsovan Achmet stipulated for alimit to the distance he was to go. He would goto Sivas, about a hundred and fifty miles, but notfarther, fearing that if he did, snow might preventhis return until the spring. His wife and family,he said, were in Marsovan, and he could not leavethem uncared-for during several months. On a fresh morning, bright and sunny as any, Ileft the Mission before eight oclock, rode throughthe streets in order to avoid comment, and alightedat the edge of the town. The plain sank gentlybefore me, its farther end closed by the huge blueprecipices of Amasia thirty miles away, which showedmy evening goal. And now, where the way dividedbe
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