. Across Asia Minor on foot . i .:*?.. :^, ?wm THE STOEE AT AK KEUPRU 273 land of romance and promise to Germans eversince. How much this great adventure of medieval Ger-many, brooded upon and made glamorous duringcenturies, had to do with the prosaic scene of rail-way construction before me, who could say ? Butas I looked at the grey pine-dotted crags and rocksrising several thousand feet as sunlit precipices, andrecalled a little of what they had beheld, and sawthe German iron road usurping the ancient highwayof so many memories, I felt that sentiment had atleast indicated the route for G
. Across Asia Minor on foot . i .:*?.. :^, ?wm THE STOEE AT AK KEUPRU 273 land of romance and promise to Germans eversince. How much this great adventure of medieval Ger-many, brooded upon and made glamorous duringcenturies, had to do with the prosaic scene of rail-way construction before me, who could say ? Butas I looked at the grey pine-dotted crags and rocksrising several thousand feet as sunlit precipices, andrecalled a little of what they had beheld, and sawthe German iron road usurping the ancient highwayof so many memories, I felt that sentiment had atleast indicated the route for German ambition tofollow. We entered the ancient highroad beside the oldArab bridge of Ak Keupru—the White Bridge—andfound it a centre of many corrugated-iron huts. Onelong shed was a store, like nothing so much as thestore in a gold - mining township. We were twohungry men when I stepped into this store, feelingthat if it were a hateful excrescence it had alsopresent advantages. A Greek shopman, cigarette inmouth, leant careless
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