Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . myfriend assured me he had to hold his nose in order to escapethe stifling stench, was asked by a native friend by his side : Did you ever see anything as beautiful as this in America?It is difficult, indeed, to enlighten such dense ignorance. Two days in Adana sufficed to make all our preparationsfor the coming journey. In fact, the friend who had comefrom the interior to meet us with his faithful Turkish servant, 524 PREPARING FOR OUR JOURNEY ACROSS TURKEY. bad already made most of these prepar
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . myfriend assured me he had to hold his nose in order to escapethe stifling stench, was asked by a native friend by his side : Did you ever see anything as beautiful as this in America?It is difficult, indeed, to enlighten such dense ignorance. Two days in Adana sufficed to make all our preparationsfor the coming journey. In fact, the friend who had comefrom the interior to meet us with his faithful Turkish servant, 524 PREPARING FOR OUR JOURNEY ACROSS TURKEY. bad already made most of these preparations before we badcome. The spring wagon, tbe pride of the touring mission-ary, bad come all tbe long journey across tbe mountains tocarry us back witbin its capacious interior. Our passportsand our safe conduct were all correctly vised. Our Turkisbguard, tbe soldier wbo was to protect us from all tbe robbersand dangers in the way, armed cap-ar-pie, wras to meet us atTarsus next day, whence we should set out for our long over-land trip, fraught as it was with unknown dangers CHAPTER XXVIII. A REMARKABLE JOURNEY ACROSS ASIA MINOR IN A SPRINGWAGON — THRILLING EXPERIENCES BY THE WAY —ADANGEROUS RIDE. An Imposing Cavalcade — Foolish Franks—An Arsenal of ArchaicWeapons — Ali, the Turk — Anastas, the Errand Boy—Meat —Entrancing Scenery — Snow-capped Lebanon — Eloquent Ruins—OurFellow Travelers — Caravans of Camels — The Patient Donkey —Pleasant Salutations—May the Almighty Cling to your Hand —The Motto of the Spoons — The Story of the Dervish — The Holy Ass. — A Chip of the Old Block —Keeping Off the Evil Eye —YouDirty Brat — A Fond Mothers Salutation — The Mother-in-Law inTurkey — A Typical Turkish Khan — Sharing a Bed with the Camels — Through the Cilician Gates —The Bad Five Miles —How WeHeld the Wagon Crossing the Taurus Mountains — In the Guest Roomof Selim.
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