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The disturbed districts of Asia Minor


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Éditeur : John Murray Date & Lieu : 1891, London
Préface : Pages : 350
Traduction : ISBN :
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 135x210 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Pre. Ang. 287Thème : Histoire

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The disturbed districts of Asia Minor


The disturbed districts of Asia Minor, a ride through Asia Minor and Armenia

Henry C. Barkley

John Murray


Chapter I

Bucharest – Improvements - A chat with Turkish prisoners - Detained in Bucharest - More Turkish prisoners – Giurgevo – Passports - Wallachian bathers – Rustchuk -Bumptious Bulgars - Russian management - Varna to Constantinople.

Towards the end of august, 1878, I received a letter from my brother G - telling me that business was taking him to the land of the Turk, and proposing that I should accompany him on the journey. Before I had finished the letter I had quite made up my mind to accept the tempting offer, and within half an hour I had written to say I would go. I had several reasons for doing this. First, I knew that G - was an old and accomplished traveller, both in lands of luxury and in lands of hardship, and that with him as a companion rough roads would become smooth, dry bread a cake, a camp bed a luxurious couch, and hardships, pleasures. Then, for some years I had longed to revisit Turkey, and this longing had increased through the great interest I had taken in the war just finished in that unfortunate land...


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Contents

Chapter I
Bucharest – Improvements - A chat with Turkish prisoners- Detained in Bucharest - More Turkish prisoners – Giurgevo - Passports-Wallachian Bathers – Rustchuk - Bumptious Bulgars - Russian management - Varna to Constantinople / 1

Chapter II
Constantinople - A kiosk - A victim of the war - Hiring servants -Constantinople to Moudanieh - On the road to Brusa - An abortive railroad / 17

Chapter III
Hotel at Brusa – Brusa - A street scene – sight – seeing – Horsedealing - Silk
Factories - Armenian orphanage / 28

Chapter lV
The gallows – Tree - A Circassian thief – Rice – growing - A start for Angora -The first day's ride - A night in a Khan - The vale of Enni Gul - Enni Gul / 40

Chapter V
Zaptiehs - A zaptieh chaoush - The Akka-Dagh – Brigands - A dangerous gun - An uncomfortable night - An alarm of Robbers / 50

Chapter VI
Camels - Camel drivers - Out on the plains – Half-ruined villages - Eski-Shehr (Doraeloum) – Meerschaum - Drunkenness / 59

Chapter VII
Circassians from Bulgaria - Ancient bath soldiers from Russia - An eastern morning - A shot at bustards - A fine wheat country - Flat-roofed houses - Camping out - Rough fare - Village visitors / 72

Chapter VIII
Departure from Kimas - Sirvi-Hissar (Pointed Castle) – Hospitality - Armenian customs - En route again - A change in the vegetation - The Sakaria - Tartars from the Dobrudja - Turcoman tents - A row with the Zaptieh-Hassan Bey's Farm / 84

Chapter IX
Sand-Grouse - Entering Angora - English consulate - Said Pasha - Difficulties of a Governor - Municipal legislation - More emigrants - Consular influence / 93

Chapter X
Angora – Ruins - Temple of augustus - Angora goats - An outrage by soldiers – Tortures - Superior zaptiehs / 103

Chapter XI
Country houses - A round of visits - A Bulgarian merchants - Tax collecting - Pack horses - Preparing for the road - The start a night in the strangers' room / 114

Chapter XII
Disobedient Yuzgat – Killidghar -A coal mine - An afternoon's sport - The Kizil Irmak - Agricultural prospects – Cotton - Silver mines - Village boors / 124

Chapter XIII
Kur – Shehr - Universal hospitality - Armenian hosts - Chances of emigration - Deré beys - Immunity from fever - A Turkish bridge the end of the plains - Kaisarioh / 135

Chapter XIV
Sixty brothers - A mission – House - Religion a nationality – Talas - An american host - Missionary Work-Armenian Gratitude-A Native Pastor-Vicarious Liberality-Hospitality bordering on Brutality / 144

Chapter XV
Products of the district of Kaisarieh roads - Good-bye to talas - Mount argaeus - Visiting a kaimakam - Armenian Agriculturists - Lahore sheiks - A revolutionary leader - In the Taurus / 156

Chapter XVI
A highway to the east camping on a housetop - Cilician gates - State of the pass - Sudden change in vegetation - An unwelcome visitor - A happy hunting – Ground - The
Grey mare not the better horse - Plains of Cilicia - Cotton crop / 169

Chapter XVII
Adana - Dearth of news - Scorpions, hornets, etc. - A land of milk and honey – Missis - The kaimakam - Dying circassians – Gazelles - Old castles / 182

Chapter XVIII
Yilan kale (Snake castle) - Nogai tartars - A tartar engineer - Shooting and hunting - A Circassian settlement - A Turcoman village - Cattle lifters - A Turcoman wake - Insolent villagers - Fever and ague - A turkish breakfast / 193

Chapter XIX
Up the Giaour dagh - A drunken official - Wanton destruction of forests - Where robbers rob - A soldier from Kars - A country gentleman - Fertile plains – Aintab - A superior khan - Armenian college - A generous Osmanli - An obstructive Governor - Armenian students want of selfrespect / 204

Chapter XX
American hospitality - Missionary labours - A bishop of the English church - Hadji Mary – Intruders - Familiarity breeds contempt - Rapid Change of Governors - A letter on Turkey / 219

Chapter XXI
A trout stream - A battle field - Settled Turcomans - A bloodfeud - A German kreutze – Dovecots - Cur chemish of the Hittites - A ferry on the Euphrates – Beridjik - An Armenian pastor - Buying a belt / 234

Chapter XXII
Native visitors - A reign of terror – Anarchy - A mudir - A Turkish official - Soldiers from the war - A shot at wolves a caravanserai – Oorfa - The castle - The birthplace of Abraham - A legend - Ancient tombs - Nose rings - Going down into the well / 244

Chapter XXIII
Camels at supper - An English dentist - The post tartar - The Arab horse - A riding mule - In the tombs - An early start – Severek - A Turkish chaussée - Lost on the mountains - Electricity / 258

Chapter XXIV
The Indian telegraph – Diarbekir - Rescued by an Englishman - Inaccessibility of Diarbekir - Mr. Boyajian - An Honest Governor - A collapse of justice - Kurdish insurrection - Insurrection a profitable speculation - Advantage of consuls - English intervention / 271

Chapter XXV
The Aleppo button – Ophthalmia – Mange - Environs of the town - Facing homewards - The Taurus - Unruly horses - Child bride - Arghana madan - The copper mines / 282

Chapter XXVI
A good chaussée - A Pasha's railroad - A freak of nature - Soldiers on the march - Kharpout plain – Kharpout - Turkish honesty - Americans in Kharpout - A philo – Turk / 294

Chapter XXVII
Visitors - Insurgent Kurds - Incorrect information - The view from Kharpout - A military road - Keban Madan Silver Mines - Cheap hospitality - Crossing the Euphrates - A Misunderstanding / 306

Chapter XXVIII
Adepsis - Kurdish raiders - A Mule track – Egin - Bad fare - A novel bridge - On the mountains - Starving villagers - Turks at prayer / 319

Chapter XXIX
Erzingan - An inactive Army - Foreign news - Garrison towns military character - Over the watershed - The life of a soldier - Village Elders - A forest - Signs of civilization / 329

Chapter XXX
The Trebizond Erzeroom road - Pitched roofs - Soghanli Dagh - A beautiful gorge - Last night on the road – Trebizond - Trade with Persia - Quitting Asia Minor / 341




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