. Discoveries in Asia Minor; including a description of the ruins of several ancient cities, and especially Antioch of Pisidia. took their leave;an enormous fire and a room more than fullof people raising- the temperature to more thanfever heat. Our dinner again to-day was soupde farine ; a dish with eggs and onions; a capitalwheat pilau ; petmes and cheese. Friday^ Nov. 16—We were so impatient toarrive at the supposed ruins of Selge, that wehad scarcely time to prepare medicines for ournumerous patients ; Mr. Dethiers sorcery of lastnight having conferred celebrity also on the Ha-kim bashi. T
. Discoveries in Asia Minor; including a description of the ruins of several ancient cities, and especially Antioch of Pisidia. took their leave;an enormous fire and a room more than fullof people raising- the temperature to more thanfever heat. Our dinner again to-day was soupde farine ; a dish with eggs and onions; a capitalwheat pilau ; petmes and cheese. Friday^ Nov. 16—We were so impatient toarrive at the supposed ruins of Selge, that wehad scarcely time to prepare medicines for ournumerous patients ; Mr. Dethiers sorcery of lastnight having conferred celebrity also on the Ha-kim bashi. The ladies of Debr^, in addition to beingvery good looking, wore a remarkably beautifulhead-dress—a large white handkerchief, or shortveil, under which, apparently, a red embroider-ed j^0 with flowers, for we were too distant todistinguish accurately, and across the foreheadan ornamented braiding a la Ferroniere. It was twenty minutes before nine when weleft the village, accompanied by our young chas-seur, armed with a Damascus rifle, pistols, andyatagan, and who yet betrayed some apprehen-sions of going with us ASCEND TO THE ACROPOLIS OF GERME. 59 Having arrived, through pines and fruit trees,at the bottom of the valley, which separates thevillage from the opposite mountain, at nineoclock we ascended on the other side. The roadwas a stony path, in some places nearly perpen-dicular, through pines of the most magnificentgrowth; here, too, the effects of the dreadfulhurricane were strongly marked in the multi-tude of trees rooted up, or broken off at differentheights from the ground. The same tree or shrub which we had remark-ed yesterday, was here in great abundance. Theleaf rather resembled that of the tea-tree, thoughit was not jagged at the edges, and the taste wasstrongly astringent. The people of Debre call-ed it Kara-gatch, and told us they used it tomake charcoal for their gunpowder. But Kara-gatch, the black tree, is a name generallygiven by the Turks, who kno
Size: 1309px × 1908px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorarundel, bookcentury1800, bookiddiscoveriesinasi02arun
