26 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



until just before daylight the following morning, by 

 which time the wind had died away almost entirely, so 

 that we did not reach Atrassan till after midday. We 

 anchored in a beautiful little bay close to shore, and, 

 seeing some people on the beach, I at once landed in 

 the dinghy with Manoli and Antonio. As it hap- 

 pened, the people we had seen belonged to the village, 

 to the head man of which I had been given a letter by 

 the Bey of El Maly, and, as the village was close at 

 hand, he was soon summoned. I had no difficulty in 

 making arrangements with him to at once search for 

 wild goats on the rugged cliffs of the Musa Dagh, one 

 end of which rises close to the Bay of Atrassan. He 

 proposed, however, that I should camp at a spring 

 of water on the slope of the mountain some miles 

 further round the coast, and it was finally arranged 

 that one of his men should proceed as quickly as 

 possible to a certain bay just below the spring, with 

 baggage animals to carry our camp outfit to the water, 

 whilst he himself accompanied us in the boat to the 

 place of rendezvous. The wind having now entirely 

 dropped, we were forced to row, and it must have 

 been quite three o'clock in the afternoon before we 

 cast anchor in a little bay well sheltered from all but 

 southerly winds. Here we found two baggage ponies 

 and two donkeys awaiting us, and, at once disembark- 

 ing, soon had all our camp baggage carried to a fine 

 spring of water on the slope of a hill about five hun- 

 dred feet above the beach. 



