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Title: Across Asia Minor on foot
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Childs, W. J
Subjects: Turkey -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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te.Beyond it lay a district of steep-sided hills, dottedwith pines but perfectly bare beneath—a surfaceof disintegrating schist which in rain resolved itselffrom rock into a treacherous greasy pulp beyondimagining. Until you actually got on this tallow-like stuff and began climbing a slope, difficult enoughif firm, you would never credit how nearly impassableit was. Only by zigzagging and severe effort couldany headway at all be made, and the guides said thatworse was to follow. On reaching that part, how-ever, a narrow stone-paved path was found, going upand down these incredibly slippery hills. I heard after-wards that Zeitun)is well understood the advantage indefence provided here, and had built the paved wayfor their own purposes and no more, making it onlywide enough for men in single file, and leaving awide unpaved stretch to stop the passage of Turkishguns. My informant explained further that thispaved path had been built with American money,subscribed in relief of Zeitfmlis.
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GorPL- on load to Zt-itun. WATER EVERYWHERE 397 After crossing these treacherous hills the path wentbetween savage mountains showing waterfalls indozens falling to the Zeitiin Su. About four oclockthe town came in sight as steps of houses risinginto the clouds. Through rain and mist wereglimpses of snow and black rock so much overheadas to seem unreal, or to hint that around me extendedthe tremendous sides of an ab3^ss. The name Zeitunmeans olive, and would lead one to think thetown had been made notable by picturesque grovesof grey-green trees ; but nothing of that sort appears.It is said, too, that no such trees exist, and that noman can remember olives at Zeitun. Seen in cloudand heavy rain, as I saw it, its high surroundingmountains and rocks visible from time to time asthreatening overhanging masses, Zeitun was merelysavage and forbidding. Nor, surely, is there anothersuch place for water in time of rain. I passed through the town gateway and foundmyself among steep narrow alleys

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