The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

old, and all your teeth fall out, they
make you new set, and you are just
as happy as you were before, and il
you don't believe it, look there!" He
put his hand to his mouth and pulled
out his false teeth, and he said those
fellows couldn't have been more
frightened if he had held pistol to
the head of every one of them. They
surrendered up everything they had
taken from him, and were glad
enough to get rid of him, and the
missionary went on his way rejoicing,
and he carries those teeth with him
now everywhere. He prefers them to
Henry rifle. He says he feels safer.
Unfortunately we were entirely des-
titute of any such natural means of
protection. We couldn't scare up a
wooden leg nor false tooth, nor a
glass eye in the whole party, and we
never realized before what misfor-
tune it is to be without any of these
things when you really want them.
So long as we kept the open plain we
we were comparatively safe. We
were only startled a little now and
then by the shout of some muleteer,
or the sudden apparition of huge
camel, lunging out of the darkness
right in front of us, with that pecul-
lar, "here's my head and my heels are
coming" gait of his and ne never
seems to know what to do with his
head until his feet have come up and
held consultation with it. He
stands squarely in the road, no mat
ter how narrow, and if you try to
squeeze past him, he turns his head
in an absent minded way to look at
you, and next thing you know you
are gone to grass feet uppermost, and
the camel looks down at you and
never seems to know how it happened.
But when we left the plain about
eleven o'clock in the morning and
entered deep cut between two high
walls of perpendicular rock, honey
combed with caves enough to have
given shelter to all the robbers in
Central Turkey, and when we learn
en- also that this had been in fact a
sort of robbers paradise, that it was
famous throughout that region as the
terrible Bekja Pass, and an outpost of
Turkish soldiers had been established
there by the government, and when
we saw too, how impossible it would
be to attempt any resistance in a
place so cramped that horse could
hardly have turned in it, and so
rough with great stones and obstruct-
ed by boulders and fallen trees, as if
purposely by the robbers, that we
could scarcely make any headway on
foot leading our horses by the bride.
l say, in view of all these considera-
tions it is not surprising that we
should not have been altogether hap
py, and that there should have been
a silent but earnest contest among us
to see which could keep the farthest
behind, and form the rear guard.
However we got through without any
accident except the fall of a horse
which was not serious, because the
young man who rode him was pro-
videntially furnished with long legs
and small horse so that the horse
could fall down while he stood astride
of him like Colossus Of Rhodes and
waited patiently for him to come up
again. We took our lunch and the
usual cup of Turkish coffee at the
outpost and toward evening after
ride of 81 miles, having been in the
saddle from 3 O'Clock in the morning
until 6 at night, we arrived in sight
of Aintab, and saw three missionaries
coming out to meet us. They intro
duced themselves as Mr.. Fuller, DR..
Stevens and Mr.. Riggs. ga
We stayed two nights at Aintab, en-
joying the generous hospitality of
Mrs. Fuller and the cordial friendli-
ness of all the missionaries, such as
missionaries only know how to be-
stow on all who visit them whether