. Across Asia Minor on foot . A Greek ot ^^t «f^ ••? «|* Suiikfii Path brliMul UiLuiJ. •?ilaiu-d Rocks in backoround. FINDING A GUIDE 189 there and back meant a whole day, and I grudged thetime. Being now out of the country of deep winter snow,and haste on the road no longer essential, I resolvedto travel in the leisurely manner of my first far I had followed roads; now I proposed tofollow paths, and take a road only when no pathoffered. It was somewhat of a lottery to cast oft*into the wilds with an unknown man, but I hadalways got on well with Moslems—excepting alwaysthe
. Across Asia Minor on foot . A Greek ot ^^t «f^ ••? «|* Suiikfii Path brliMul UiLuiJ. •?ilaiu-d Rocks in backoround. FINDING A GUIDE 189 there and back meant a whole day, and I grudged thetime. Being now out of the country of deep winter snow,and haste on the road no longer essential, I resolvedto travel in the leisurely manner of my first far I had followed roads; now I proposed tofollow paths, and take a road only when no pathoffered. It was somewhat of a lottery to cast oft*into the wilds with an unknown man, but I hadalways got on well with Moslems—excepting alwaysthe irascible invalid Mehmet—and a Moslem servantwas in himself an important passport. Between theprobability of a Turkish Moslem being faithful, andwhat I could discern of a mans character in an inter-view, I had few misgivings about being ill-served;for the rest I would depend upon myself. The Ar-menian steward of the mission knew a Turk whomight be suitable, and undertook to find him. So one afternoon I was called into the docto
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