. Kurds of Wan. CHAFTEE XYIII. MEHEMET PASHA. DESORIPTIOISr OF WAN. ITS HISTOKY. IMPKOVEMENT IN ITS OOKDITION.—THE ARMENIAN BISHOP. THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIP- TIONS.—THE CAVES OF KHORKHOR. ^THE MEHER KAPOITSI. A TRADI- TION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INSCRIPTIONS. THE BAIRAM. AN AR- MENIAN SCHOOL. THE AMERICAN MISSIONS.—PROTESTANT MOVEMENT IN TURKEY. ^AMIKH. ^THE CONVENT OF YEDI KLISSIA. Mehemet Pasha was living during the fast of Hamazan in a kiosk in one of the gardens outside the city walls. "We had scarcely eaten, before he came himself to welcome us to Wan. He was the son of the last Bostandji


. Kurds of Wan. CHAFTEE XYIII. MEHEMET PASHA. DESORIPTIOISr OF WAN. ITS HISTOKY. IMPKOVEMENT IN ITS OOKDITION.—THE ARMENIAN BISHOP. THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIP- TIONS.—THE CAVES OF KHORKHOR. ^THE MEHER KAPOITSI. A TRADI- TION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INSCRIPTIONS. THE BAIRAM. AN AR- MENIAN SCHOOL. THE AMERICAN MISSIONS.—PROTESTANT MOVEMENT IN TURKEY. ^AMIKH. ^THE CONVENT OF YEDI KLISSIA. Mehemet Pasha was living during the fast of Hamazan in a kiosk in one of the gardens outside the city walls. "We had scarcely eaten, before he came himself to welcome us to Wan. He was the son of the last Bostandji-Bashi of Constantinople, and having been brought up from a child in the imperial palace, was a man of pleasing and dignified manners, and of consider-


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