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ANECDOTES CONNECTED WITH EXCAVATIONS. 95
would be injudicious to undertake the investigation of
the murder without the presence of the Mudir of the
district, who lived at Tchirkenjee, a village on the side of
the mountain west of Ephesus. I therefore rode up to
see the Mudir, and told him of the murder ; he at once
offered to accompany me to Ayasalouk with three
Zaptiehs. As it was Sunday evening, many of my men,
who had spent most of the day in the cafes at Ayas-
alouk, were still there as we approached the village, so in
order not to give them warning of our approach in force,
we entered by several routes, and in this manner caught
a number of the men. These we took and left at the
Konak in charge of the Zaptiehs of Ayasalouk. We
then provided ourselves with a quantity of strong
rope, which we cut into long lengths, each sufficient to
tie five or six men together by their waists. We then
proceeded to the sleeping-places of the men amongst
the ruins, which were chiefly in some arched substructure
of the ancient public buildings.
These we readily found under the guidance of one of
the men, but it was quite dark on our arrival there. We
found them in gangs of five or six, and we took them
prisoners without resistance; and by the time we arrived
at the theatre we had made thirty-seven prisoners, with
those found in the village. One of the men pointed out
the spot where the body would be found, and two of the
best workmen were set to work to remove the stones
which had been thrown in over the body, which had
been buried deeply. It took fully two hours to remove
the stones and to expose to view the body. Meanwhile
the men clustered in picturesque groups around the
spot, and this weird scene was illuminated by the
would be injudicious to undertake the investigation of
the murder without the presence of the Mudir of the
district, who lived at Tchirkenjee, a village on the side of
the mountain west of Ephesus. I therefore rode up to
see the Mudir, and told him of the murder ; he at once
offered to accompany me to Ayasalouk with three
Zaptiehs. As it was Sunday evening, many of my men,
who had spent most of the day in the cafes at Ayas-
alouk, were still there as we approached the village, so in
order not to give them warning of our approach in force,
we entered by several routes, and in this manner caught
a number of the men. These we took and left at the
Konak in charge of the Zaptiehs of Ayasalouk. We
then provided ourselves with a quantity of strong
rope, which we cut into long lengths, each sufficient to
tie five or six men together by their waists. We then
proceeded to the sleeping-places of the men amongst
the ruins, which were chiefly in some arched substructure
of the ancient public buildings.
These we readily found under the guidance of one of
the men, but it was quite dark on our arrival there. We
found them in gangs of five or six, and we took them
prisoners without resistance; and by the time we arrived
at the theatre we had made thirty-seven prisoners, with
those found in the village. One of the men pointed out
the spot where the body would be found, and two of the
best workmen were set to work to remove the stones
which had been thrown in over the body, which had
been buried deeply. It took fully two hours to remove
the stones and to expose to view the body. Meanwhile
the men clustered in picturesque groups around the
spot, and this weird scene was illuminated by the