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rediff.
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CHAPTER XLVI.
Leave CEesarea—Rediff—Greek Monastery—Road over Argaeus—Everek Kieui_
Develi — Ascent of Mount Argseus— Volcanic Rocks—Glaciers_-Ruins of
Gerameli—Plain of Kara Hissar—Reach Kara Hissar.
Thursday, July 27.—After much delay on the part of the
Menzilji and a party of Armenians, with whom Dimitri had
had some money transactions, it was past nine before we
could start. While waiting I was surrounded by a motley
group of ragged Armenian boys, who wished to dispose of
some worthless Byzantine coins. My intention was to go, in
the first instance, to the Greek convent, pass the night there,
and after getting what information I could from the Bishop,
who had been described to me as a clever and agreeable
person, to proceed the next day to Everek Kieui.
As soon as we were out of the town we got into conversa-
tion with a Yeuzbashi of the Rediff of Cajsarea, raised and
organised by the present Mutzellim: the corps consists of
3000 men, and is divided into four battalions, each of which
does duty for three months. Their pay is no more than
twenty-five piastres, or five shillings a month for the pri-
vates; twenty-seven piastres a month for the corporal, or
On-bashi (head of ten) ; sixty or seventy piastres, twelve
or fourteen shillings, for the Yeuzbashi or captain (head of
a hundred) ; and three or four hundred for the Bimbashi,
or colonel, equal to three or four pounds per month. A
mile beyond the city wall I observed a mass of basalt in
the plain, quite detached from the hills, and which I had
not remarked when last on this portion of the road. The
bed of the Delhi Sd, which we crossed three miles from the
town, was perfectly dry : it extends to the N.W., spreading
rediff.
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CHAPTER XLVI.
Leave CEesarea—Rediff—Greek Monastery—Road over Argaeus—Everek Kieui_
Develi — Ascent of Mount Argseus— Volcanic Rocks—Glaciers_-Ruins of
Gerameli—Plain of Kara Hissar—Reach Kara Hissar.
Thursday, July 27.—After much delay on the part of the
Menzilji and a party of Armenians, with whom Dimitri had
had some money transactions, it was past nine before we
could start. While waiting I was surrounded by a motley
group of ragged Armenian boys, who wished to dispose of
some worthless Byzantine coins. My intention was to go, in
the first instance, to the Greek convent, pass the night there,
and after getting what information I could from the Bishop,
who had been described to me as a clever and agreeable
person, to proceed the next day to Everek Kieui.
As soon as we were out of the town we got into conversa-
tion with a Yeuzbashi of the Rediff of Cajsarea, raised and
organised by the present Mutzellim: the corps consists of
3000 men, and is divided into four battalions, each of which
does duty for three months. Their pay is no more than
twenty-five piastres, or five shillings a month for the pri-
vates; twenty-seven piastres a month for the corporal, or
On-bashi (head of ten) ; sixty or seventy piastres, twelve
or fourteen shillings, for the Yeuzbashi or captain (head of
a hundred) ; and three or four hundred for the Bimbashi,
or colonel, equal to three or four pounds per month. A
mile beyond the city wall I observed a mass of basalt in
the plain, quite detached from the hills, and which I had
not remarked when last on this portion of the road. The
bed of the Delhi Sd, which we crossed three miles from the
town, was perfectly dry : it extends to the N.W., spreading