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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Certainly," replied the imperturbable dragoman, "we could not be so impolite as to offer money to a man of your wealth and station; we could not insult you by giving you alms." The old Turcoman thereupon gave a shrug and a grunt, made a sullen good-by salutation, and left us. It was nearly six o'clock when we reached the Pursek.
Tartar, and Spaehi, and Turcoman, Strike your tents and throng to the van; Mount ye, spur ye, skirr the plain, That the fugitive may flee in vain When he breaks from the town; and none escape, Aged or young, in the Christian shape; While your fellows on foot, in a fiery mass, Bloodstain the breach through which they pass.
The Frontier of Phrygia Ancient Quarries and Tombs We Enter the Pine Forests A Guard-House Encampments of the Turcomans Pastoral Scenery A Summer Village The Valley of the Tombs Rock Sepulchres of the Phrygian Kings The Titan's Camp The Valley of Kuembeh A Land of Flowers Turcoman Hospitality The Exiled Effendis The Old Turcoman A Glimpse of Arcadia A Landscape Interested Friendship The Valley of the Pursek Arrival at Kiutahya.
Scattered about the grazing and arable country are now small towers of refuge, loop-holed for defense, to which ryots working in the fields, or shepherds tending their flocks, fled for safety in case of a sudden appearance of Turcoman marauders.
We ascended a long slope, covered with wheat-fields, where numbers of Turcoman reapers were busy at work, passed their black tents, surrounded with droves of sheep and goats, and reached a rude stone fountain of good water, where two companies of these people had stopped to rest, on their way to the mountains.
Traces of Caspian Gulfs, formerly taken for old beds of the Amu, intersect the Turcoman territory. Deduction must surely be made for temporary, periodical oscillations. But with all that, desiccation is evident, and it progresses at a formerly unexpected speed.
Katherin, Veli's other wife, and his daughters by various mothers, were dragged to the bazaar and sold ignominiously to Turcoman shepherds, after which the executioners at once proceeded to make an inventory of the spoils of their victims. But the inheritance of Mouktar Pacha was not quite such an easy prey.
There is no field for them equal to Asia Minor a glorious region, abounding in natural wealth, almost depopulated, and containing a great number of Phalansteries ready built. We succeeded in getting some eggs, fowls, and milk from an old Turcoman who had charge of the village. It was made before the cream had been removed, and was very rich and nourishing.
It was quite safe to go anywhere, to canter far along the road to Magnesia, or to stop and take coffee beside some cool spring in the shadow of the huge plane-trees, and watch the whole East pass by caravans from Diarbekir, half-wild Turcoman tribes, bashi-bazouks from the four corners of Asia, all of them worthy subjects for an artist's pencil, and I never stopped drawing them.
In like manner, Othman observed the life of a Turcoman, till he became a conqueror; but, as soon as he had crossed Mount Olympus, and found himself in the Greek territory as a master, he was both willing and able to accommodate himself to a pomp and luxury to which a mere Turcoman was unequal.
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