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ARZ-ROUM TO AMASIA. 
chose to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Governor of Arz^roum, 
and informed him that they intended to desert. To pacify them, there¬ 
fore, he was obliged to send them loads of victuals. We passed the 
night, however, without disturbance, and fared well indeed, by the 
kindness of the Armenians of the village. From this place Southward 
to Bin Gieul ,* the sources of the Araxes is five sahat (hours) Turkish. 
The villages nearest our road were Gez , Belour , Arouni. 
22d. Our route to Purtun bore W. on a distance of twenty miles. 
From Ilija to the right and left, the country was still as on the preced¬ 
ing day, studded with villages, and still richly cultivated. But it is 
almost destitute of timber; a few bushes and small trees only are 
sprinkled here and there over the hills; and the great number of Ara- 
bahs which we met loaded with wood had been all brought from a dis¬ 
tance. About six miles on the right is the village of Alaga , and on 
the left Arranli. Having proceeded five miles from our last stage we 
stopped at Jennis , a very pretty spot, where the Armenians brought us a 
breakfast of eggs, fritters, yaourt (curdled milk), and kymack (clouted 
cream). On leaving Jennis , the village Nardiran lies at the declivity of 
the hill. We quitted here the road to the right, which would have car¬ 
ried us to Ak CaUh , the regular Menzil Khoneh , and took a bye-path, 
because a pass in the mountains along the direct line was possessed by 
a party of Courdistan freebooters. We reached Purtun about four miles S. 
from Ak Caleb, and sent thither for the horses (fifteen in number,) which 
were necessary to convey us forwards. Our resting place was a small 
village in the bosom of the mountains, near a pretty stream which fell 
in a cascade (almost under the roots of three picturesque trees in the 
middle of the water), and turned a mill below. At about twelve o'clock 
the clouds arose from the S. E. and brought thunder, hail, and rain; a 
circumstance which I had remarked almost every day at the same hour 
9 See before p. 317. The same name seems to be applied to the sources of the Euphrates 
and of the Araxes f which both rise on opposite directions from the same mountains. 
