SPORT AND TRAVEL 15 



In every way I found the governor of El Maly most 

 kind and civil. Before proceeding farther on my jour- 

 ney, it was necessary to hire fresh horses, as those 

 which had brought us from Denizli had only been en- 

 gaged to take us to El Maly; and on my telling the 

 Bey that I wanted to go on as soon as possible, he at 

 once sent a man out to hire fresh animals, but said that 

 we should not be able to start till the following day. 



On asking his advice as to the best place to make 

 for with a view to hunting wild goats, he said he would 

 not advise us to try the range where Manoli had seen 

 goats in the spring, nor, indeed, any of the ranges 

 close round El Maly, as although there were wild 

 goats in all of them they were not numerous in any, 

 and at this time of year especially difficult to find, be- 

 cause they were constantly disturbed by the Yuruk 

 shepherds, who were pasturing their flocks of tame 

 goats all over the mountains. The one place he knew 

 of, he said, where wild goats were plentiful, was on the 

 Musa Dagh and neighbouring mountains, situated on 

 the sea-coast, about four days' journey southeast of El 

 Maly ; he said that if I liked to go there, he would 

 give me a letter to the head man of the village in the 

 district and also a soldier to escort us. On my reply- 

 ing that I would certainly take his advice and start for 

 the Musa Dagh as soon as the ponies were ready, he 

 further offered to give me a letter to a man named 

 Achmet, an experienced hunter of wild goats, living 

 about twenty miles from El Maly, in a village which 



