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supplied us. Our guide insisted on having seven piastres (or half 

 a guinea) in hand, before he set out with us to the top of Kaz-Dag ; 

 and told us that our countrymen had paid him double that sum. 



During our supper, some sooty workmen from the pitch furnaces 

 came to us, begging charity, and saying that they were Christians 

 from the island of Salamis, and that they had been impressed for 

 this service by the Capudan Pasha, who annually sends a ship for 

 some of their countrymen, that they may be employed in the forests 

 of Ida. 



After recruiting our strength by a night's rest at Evjilah, we 

 proceeded next day on our return towards Yenicher ; our route led 

 us through part of the ancient Scepsis ; for some time we kept the 

 road by which we had come, and then crossed a tributary stream of 

 the Mendere, called Chiousluk Sou, which is dry in the summer 

 months. Our road was on the western banks of the Mendere. Four 

 miles from Evjilah we quitted the rich valley of Bairamitche, and 

 struck off towards the left. About two miles further we crossed 

 another rivulet, broad but shallow, called Yaskebal-Chya. In a 

 Turkish burial-ground here, I noticed a few scattered fragments of 

 ancient buildings. Four miles further we came to a lofty hill 

 called Kezil Tepe. We rested for a short time under an oriental 

 plane-tree ; and then passed through a Turkish village called 

 Oranjou, and soon discovered^ by the frequency of fountains on the 

 road-side, by the goodness of the fences, and the cultivated face of 

 the country, that we had again reached estates belonging to Hadim 

 Oglou's family. The source of the rivulet Sanderlee is extremely 

 beautiful, and we found the pale-green tint of the plane-trees near 

 it a most pleasing relief to the eye after the gloomy pine forests, 

 and dazzling snow of Gargarus. 



In the evening we reached the town of Boyuk Bounarbashi, or the 

 greater Bounarbashi, so called to distinguish it from the village of the 

 same name at the top of the Scamandrian plain. We found this 

 town very gay and noisy on account of the celebration of a Turkish 

 wedding ; and before we retired to rest, a band of musicians, who had 

 been brought to the wedding-feast from the Dardanelles came to our 



