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I. THE WAY OUT S3
active and useful Turk) sitting among the villagers;
nothing had been unpacked, no preparations made,
no fowl purchased. As he explained, there had
not been time to do anything when he saw us
coming across the valley; and he waited to see
whether I still wanted him to carry out the orders.
At that hour it was too late to prepare anything ;
sardines and tea, the usual stand-by on a late
arrival, furnished a hurried meal.
Our quarters were very picturesque. A small
platform of rough planks was fixed under the
shadow of two overarching trees ; and the hillside
was so steep that from the outer edge of the plat-
form there was a drop of some hundred feet.
Round the platform ran a low balustrade. Here
the village men usually sat in the cool shade with
a splendid outlook across the plain to the southern
mountains, where Kadmos and Salbakos, both still
crowned with snow, stood up from the valley
(550 feet above sea level in the middle) to a
height of over 8000 feet. The change from the
heat and dust of Smyrna and the railway carriage
and the valley, to this rustic seat on the side of
the hill, was delightful.
II. Early in the morning we reached the summit
of the hills that bound the Lycos valley. The
muleteer was sent on from here to Demirji-Keui
(where the whole district Tchal used to go for
active and useful Turk) sitting among the villagers;
nothing had been unpacked, no preparations made,
no fowl purchased. As he explained, there had
not been time to do anything when he saw us
coming across the valley; and he waited to see
whether I still wanted him to carry out the orders.
At that hour it was too late to prepare anything ;
sardines and tea, the usual stand-by on a late
arrival, furnished a hurried meal.
Our quarters were very picturesque. A small
platform of rough planks was fixed under the
shadow of two overarching trees ; and the hillside
was so steep that from the outer edge of the plat-
form there was a drop of some hundred feet.
Round the platform ran a low balustrade. Here
the village men usually sat in the cool shade with
a splendid outlook across the plain to the southern
mountains, where Kadmos and Salbakos, both still
crowned with snow, stood up from the valley
(550 feet above sea level in the middle) to a
height of over 8000 feet. The change from the
heat and dust of Smyrna and the railway carriage
and the valley, to this rustic seat on the side of
the hill, was delightful.
II. Early in the morning we reached the summit
of the hills that bound the Lycos valley. The
muleteer was sent on from here to Demirji-Keui
(where the whole district Tchal used to go for