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after consulting his secretary, he said we might 

 have the guard, but that if we went within 

 certain limits, we must undergo a quarantine, as 

 if we had been inhabitants of the place. This 

 was tantamount to prohibition. Though most 

 anxious to visit these ruins, and quite willing 

 to run all risks, except loss of time, we reluc- 

 tantly gave up the journey. It turned out af- 

 terwards, that the Agha's strict quarantine had 

 the desired effect of keeping the disease, whe- 

 ther plague or not, within bounds, as it did not 

 spread beyond Erness, where most of the people 

 died. From the similarity of the name Er- 

 ness, to the name of the ancient Lycian town, 

 Arnese,* we concluded that it must be the site 

 of that place, an opinion which we afterwards 

 found was also held by Herr Loev, whom we 

 met at Rhodes, and who had visited these ruins 

 before the plague broke out there. He de- 

 scribed them as of very great interest from the 

 rude Cyclopean character of the walls ; but had 

 met with no inscriptions to confirm the name. 

 In passing through the court of the konak, after 



* " Arnese, a small town, on the authority of Capito, the 

 Isaurian historian," Cramer ii. 266. Arna, or Arina, was 

 also an ancient name of Xanthus. 



