New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-06

is deepened of the great traffic which a railway
might find on this line Of road.
Four hours of such travel bring you a craving
for lunch. But your lunch basket is out OF TIN,
question. IL is tied up with the rest Of your
baggage and here you learn the second lesson
OF your Asiatic travel, which is that the needs
of the horses fix the times and the seasons for
the satisfaction of the needs of the passengers.
When the horses stop 10 cat you may eat, IL
you can find any food. As 30 unloading the
wagon for the purpose OF giving you access
TO your lunch basket the driver simply refuses
10 do any such thing. In four hours more you
come down from hilltop into the street of
mud village twenty-five miles from Samsoun, and
your wagon suddenly turns into "a wide gateway
on the left, and hats in n large quadrangle where
are dozens OF like wagons ranged in regular
This is the khan which your driver has elected
for your nights lodging. Half dozen ragged
and dirty villagers surround the team and take
out the horses in iffy, before you have accepted
their invitation TO alight and come up stairs.
Up stairs Won find yourself In a corridor opening
over the quadrangle, with rooms opening on the
corridor, and groups OF men, women and children
assembled TO view the newcomer. man at
your elbow tells you that the best room is occupied
by an Armenian family, but that he will clear
them out directly, which he does before you
know what is going on. A servant sweeps out
their minor leavinES, and you find yourself in
a bare, unfinished room Of which the air is
saturated with the odors Of the stable Servants
bring up your baggage and deposit IL in this
with a tin cup to drink from, and you are az
home in your room in Turkish hotel. and sup
piled with the best that it affords. II you have
q tea-kettle and choose TO take il down 30 the
coffee-room where the wagoners sleep you have
the right TO use the common fire and make your
self sCme tea. If you are satisfied with the
coffee that the khan can offer you you can have
that served in your room and charged in your
bill If You heve not brought food you can
always find black bread and white cheese and
olives at shop round the corner and if you
would like uilI there is always some boy willing
for o consideration to run and tell some shepherd
Of your extraordinary demand. But the most
that the khan affords the traveller in the ordinary
course of events is bare rOom jug Of water
and right of cooking at the common fire.
Tired enough you are when darkness sets in
and spreading your mattress on the floor, yOu
wrap yourself in blanket and lie down TO rest
as best you may in place pellng with tn fun Is
of the horse stalls. But you rue the day. No
sooner is the candle blown out than the silent
hordes Of the floors and the walls and the ceiling
come forth and attack every inch of your I'M
happy body at once. Turkey takes nIeance
on the traveller who would spy out her Asiatic
Businesses Lilliput assails CULVER effectively
ever.
But let me draw curtain over the bloody
scenes of this night Suffice it TO say that at
half-past three in the morning. when your wagon
driver comes to see if Won nearly ready tn
start, you reply, Ready! l have been ready
70 go the last six hours!" So you pay. your
hotel bill Of twenty-five thirty cents, including
service. and drive out into the cool and pure
mOrnn g air of the mountains.