THE CONE-DWELLERS OF ASIA MINOR 



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DISINTEGRATION OE THE ENTERIOR WALLS IS FAR ADVANCED IN THIS ORIGINALLY 

 SPLENDID CONE, WITH ITS CAP STILL IN POSITION 



This photograph was selected by Perrot as typical of the whole series, and it appears in his 



History of Hittite Art. 



delicious flavor to certain palates, but the 

 taste must be acquired. 



"Xenophon made the headman of the 

 village his guest at supper and bade him 

 keep a good heart. So far from robbing 

 him of his children, the native was as- 

 sured that the Greeks would fill his house 

 full of good things in return for what 

 they took before they went away ; only 

 the headman must set them an example 

 and discover some blessing or other for 

 the army until they found themselves 

 with another tribe. 



"To this the headman readily assented, 

 and with the utmost cordiality showed 



the Greeks the cellar where the wine was 

 buried. For this night, then, having taken 

 up their several quarters as described, 

 they slumbered in the midst of plenty, 

 one and all, with the headman under 

 watch and ward and his children with 

 him safe in sight. 



"On the following day Xenophon took 

 the headman and set off to Cheirisophus, 

 making a round of the villages, and at 

 each place faring sumptuously and merry- 

 making. There was not a single village 

 where the inhabitants did not insist on 

 setting a breakfast before the visitors, 

 and on the same table were spread half 



