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II. THE WAY HOME 83
Alaka on the hills south of Baghche-Hissar, and
contrives to find a guide there.1
XII. We crossed a steep and lofty mountain-
ridge due south into the valley of Apollonia and
Sozopolis (City of the Saviour), as the Christians
called the Byzantine city on a lofty rock, which
took the place of Apollonia when its situation in
the open plain was found to be too unsafe. The
day was spent in making a round of villages, veri-
fying the text of published inscriptions, and, though
tedious, it was profitable. In this southern valley
we were plunged into the usual blazing heat of
July; and the sudden change from the cold and
rain of the past week was trying. At night I
lay outside the stuffy Oda, with the horses too
near; and the bad smell produced illness, as I have
often experienced before.
XIII. Though hardly able to get on my horse,
and frequently compelled to get off, I struggled on
for an hour to Olu-Borlu, on the site of Sozopolis.
After resting for an hour or two I went out in search
of an important inscription, the published copy of
which was unsatisfactory. According to my in-
formation it was in the courtyard of a Iwdjire, but
when I asked for the Jwdjire, every one said that any
place where a hodja lived was a liodjirc. Taking
a guide, I went about from place to place. Olu-
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrvgia, ch. xviii., and inscr. No. 693.
Alaka on the hills south of Baghche-Hissar, and
contrives to find a guide there.1
XII. We crossed a steep and lofty mountain-
ridge due south into the valley of Apollonia and
Sozopolis (City of the Saviour), as the Christians
called the Byzantine city on a lofty rock, which
took the place of Apollonia when its situation in
the open plain was found to be too unsafe. The
day was spent in making a round of villages, veri-
fying the text of published inscriptions, and, though
tedious, it was profitable. In this southern valley
we were plunged into the usual blazing heat of
July; and the sudden change from the cold and
rain of the past week was trying. At night I
lay outside the stuffy Oda, with the horses too
near; and the bad smell produced illness, as I have
often experienced before.
XIII. Though hardly able to get on my horse,
and frequently compelled to get off, I struggled on
for an hour to Olu-Borlu, on the site of Sozopolis.
After resting for an hour or two I went out in search
of an important inscription, the published copy of
which was unsatisfactory. According to my in-
formation it was in the courtyard of a Iwdjire, but
when I asked for the Jwdjire, every one said that any
place where a hodja lived was a liodjirc. Taking
a guide, I went about from place to place. Olu-
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrvgia, ch. xviii., and inscr. No. 693.