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It is something to say that from a rising pestilence with a score of deaths daily, in five weeks, himself and his assistants left the city in a normally healthful condition, the mortality ceasing at once under their care and treatment. During this time the medical relief for the cities of Zeitoun and Marash was in charge of Dr. Ira Harris, of Tripoli, who reached there March 18th.
"There's one other thing," said the consul. "I've been told a Miss Gloria Vanderrnan is on her way to the mission at Marash " "Gee whiz!" said Will. The consul nodded. "She's pretty, if that's what you mean. It was very unwise to let her go, escorted only by Armenians. Of course, she may get through without as much as suspecting trouble's brewing, but well I wish you'd look out for her."
And we slept at night in the houses of Armenians whom my guides knew, so that the journey wasn't bad at all. Everything was going splendidly until we reached a sort of crossroads if you can call those goat-tracks roads without stretching truth too far and there three men came galloping toward us on blown horses from the direction of Marash.
They told us, when they could get their breath and quit looking behind them like men afraid of ghosts, that the Turks in Marash which by all accounts is a very fanatical place had started to murder Armenians. They yelled at me to turn and run. " 'Run where? I asked them. 'The Turks won't murder me!
"Well, if that were true and mind you, I didn't believe it it was a good reason why I should hurry there and help. If the mission staff was overworked before that they would be simply overwhelmed now. So I told them to turn round and come to Marash with me and my six men." "And what did they say?" we demanded together. "They laughed. They said nothing at all to me. Perhaps they thought I was mad.
"I was going to the mission at Marash to stay a year there and help, before returning to the States. They warned me in Tarsus that the trip might be dangerous, but I know how short-handed they are at Marash, and I wouldn't listen. Besides, they picked the best men they could find to bring me on the way, and I started. I had a Turkish permit to travel a teskere they call it see, I have it here.
If the smudge of smoke to the right front overhung Marash, then we were probably already nearer Zeitoon than when we and Kagig parted company. "Come up and see for yourselves," said Will. Fred passed the line that held his prisoners in tow to an Armenian, and we climbed up together on foot.
This lady is said to have been of noble English parentage, and was honourably interred at Antioch in Syria . Now Konieh, Erekli, and Marash; the two former in Karamania, the latter in Syria or Room. For this story, Hakluyt quotes Hist Bel. Sacr. lib. iii. c. xvii. and Chron. Hierosol. lib. iii c. xxvii. The Voyage of Edgar Aethling to Jerusalem, in 1102 .
"That seemed to make them think, and they and my six men all talked together in Armenian much too fast for me to understand a word of it. Then they pointed to some smoke on the sky-line that they said was from burning Armenian homes in Marash. " 'Why didn't you take refuge in the mission? I asked them. And they answered that it was because the mission grounds were already full of refugees.
The utmost care was taken by all our expeditions to prevent the spread of the contagion and there is no record of its ever having been carried out of the cities, where it was found, either at Zeitoun, Marash, or Arabkir. Lacking this precaution, it might well have spread throughout all Asia Minor, as was greatly feared by the anxious people. On the twenty-fourth of May, Dr.
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