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The wagons hurried on to the next town called Memetyar and there Dr. Shedd waited, lightening his own wagons by throwing away everything that they could spare oil, potatoes, charcoal, every box except his Bible and a small volume of Browning's Poems. Then they started again, along a road that was littered with the discarded goods of the people.
Shedd, "that the enemy might get the better of us and we should have to leave the carts and run for our lives. While they were plundering the wagons and the loads we would get away. I looked about me to see what we might carry. I wrapped a little bread in a cloth, put my glasses in my pocket, and took the bag of money so that I should be ready on a moment's notice for Dr.
Three sows, two barrows and four shoats completed the list of livestock. All other possessions are listed in the "outer room, the chamber and the shedd." These three areas constituted the Calthrope home.
Then they saw on the road-side a little baby girl that had been left by her parents. She was not a year old and sat there all alone in a desolate spot. Left to die. Dr. Shedd looked at his wife and she at him. He pulled up the horse and jumped down, picked up the baby and put her in the wagon. They went along till they came to a large village. Here they found a Kurdish mother.
Within two hours the Turks and Kurds were crashing into houses and burning them to the ground; but most of the people had gone for Dr. Shedd was practically the last to leave Urumia. Ahead of them were the Armenians and Syrians in flight. They came to a little bridge a mass of sticks with mud thrown over them. Here, and at every bridge, pandemonium reigned. This is how Mrs.
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He had shepherded his thousands and thousands of boys and girls, and men and women through the mountains into the protection of the British squadron of troops. Later that day Dr. Shedd began to feel the frightful heat of the August day so exhausting that he had to lie down in the cart, which had a canvas cover open at both ends and was therefore much cooler than a tent.
Let me refer you on this point to the clear statements of Professor Shedd. He has well said that "when Christianity was revealed in its last and beautiful form by the incarnation of the Eternal World, it found the human mind already occupied by human philosophy. Educated men were Platonists, or Stoics, or Epicureans.
The first severe attack of the enemy was on the South of the "Crater," which was defended by a part of the Twenty-second under Major Shedd, and Benbow's Twenty-third under Captain White. The enemy attacked with fury. Our men fought nobly, but were driven down their ditch. Wise's Brigade then joined in, and our men rushed back and recovered the lost space.
At last at midday on the third day they left Hadarabad at the south end of Lake Urumia. Two hours later the sound of booming guns was heard. A horseman galloped up. "The Turks are in Hadarabad," he said. "They are attacking the rear of the procession." "It seemed," said Mrs. Shedd, "as if at any moment we should hear the screams of those behind, as the enemy fell upon them."
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