4 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



expedition, but remained the guest of our kind friends 

 at Bourn abat. I might have gone to good goat 

 ground easily accessible from Smyrna, but I preferred 

 to make a longer journey in order to see something of 

 the country, taking my chance of finding game ; and 

 learning that there were some fine mountain ranges 

 in the neighbourhood of the Turkish town of El 

 Maly, which lies well in the interior, about half-way 

 between the terminus of the Aidin Railway and the 

 port of Adalia, on the south coast of Asia Minor, I 

 resolved first to make for that place, and then be 

 guided by circumstances. I was probably principally 

 led to this decision by the fact that the man whom 

 Mr. W. was giving me as guide and general facto- 

 tum told me that he had himself seen wild goats on 

 one of the mountain ranges near El Maly whilst en- 

 gaged in searching for crocus bulbs for his employer 

 in the previous spring, and as I knew that no Euro- 

 pean had ever hunted in the district, it possessed all 

 the fascination of the unknown from a sportsman's 

 point of view. Manoli, the guide aforesaid, a swarthy 

 aquiline-featured hill Greek, grave and courteous in 

 manner, I found to be a capital fellow and a most 

 reliable and trustworthy servant. Dressed in his 

 national costume, he always looked in harmony with 

 his surroundings, which is more than I can say for 

 Antonio, my Greek cook and interpreter, whose black 

 pot hat, combined with the conventional jacket and 

 trousers of Western Europe, was a constant eyesore 



