The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-05
AWAY IN ASIA MINOR
A Herald Correspondent in the
Far off Country.
A UNIQUE MAP OF THE PLACE.
The Habits and Customs of Peculiar People
Beautiful Ruins Attest For
mer Greatness.

ADANA, ASIA MINOR, April /, 1852
Especial Correspondence of THE HERALD.
While sitting upon my crossed legs, on
mat spread upon the fiOor-the only furni-
ture in the room, awaiting the return OF
President +. L. Hintzi, who sallies forth
on periodical excursions every chance
he has to 'button- hole some INDECENT.
fatalist Turk or keen-witted Armenian.
l have concluded to give an outline of
some doings here-may it please you to in
sert the same.
A MAP OF ASIA MINOR
for ready reference can be made in mo
! ment and used to illustrate portions of this
article, thus: The four fingers of the
right hand are to be kept close together
the thumb is ON the contrary to stand out
straight away from the fingers forming
an u. Now with the thumb always
straight rs explained, bring the whole
hand IN front of You, knuckles upwards,
the thumb pointing towards yourself The
whole hand, right up to the wrist, gives
neat outline of Turkey in Asia or
Asia Minor mot "A rough map either
The thumb represents Palestine; the
thumb-nail corresponds to the Dead sea and
Jerusalem; the second phalanX up to the
hand corresponds to Syria; right at the
joint Tor hinge of the thumb is the German
colony and Arab city of Haife formerly
the city of CaiphasJ from this we Travelled
10 miles in fOrty-two hours on horseback
starting AT 30 Il. m. March 22d, and reach
ing Beyrouth in the evening of Saturday the
23d. The whacks and blows the horses re |
Ceived on the second day | computed at over
1000 each, but as Mr.. Hintzi weighs over
sixty pounds more than myself and being
more muscular, presumably inflicted a
greater number: but we had to catch the
steamer.
As TO THE RIDING,
My pantaloons showed bad humoI Of course.
and ripped az last. causing yet greater and
more painful intimacy between myself and
that twisted and kmOtty saddle
On this hasty trip we passed what we had
seen befOgc. viz: the sites of ancient Tyre.
ePtOlemais, SidOn, Achzib and Zarepath !
Ruins and fields Of rocks from overthrowu |
cities everywhere. Any smoky Old den or
inn has embedded into its walls capitals !
and pilasters of Greek marble or rich gran
It's I'm great variety as to color. and cara |
vans of CamclS are brought here frequently |
with labOrers armed with crow bars. to pry |
up blocks of fine stones from among the |
debris. This we saw, and the camels |
gruuting under big ones weud their way. |
carrying the remains of ancient grandeur |
and PhmniCian glory TO some squalid Arab |
village, to serve for a season as some |
sheikh or BedOuin chief shall decree. |
Among these ruins can be seen an Occa- !
siOnal snake, barely disturbing .ae dust of |
ages as he glides through the dry grass.
which yields sulleuly and almost without |
noise to his languid and undulating march.
and a few lizards that play hide |
and seek around some dried |
out stone trOughs. or skip over |
the hot rocks and, if surprised by the .
thirsty traveller, stop merely to wink few
times at the intruder. and like an unexpected !
arrow. dart Cff in less than Il second At |
night, when the sun had long plunged him
self behind the Mediterranean. the last OF !
horde of bats, owls and uighthawKs come !
out tapping against the sides Of the mar
row
CAvERNs, sEPULCHERs AND CREyICEs
- the rocks, where the dead of many gen
-Frations of centuries past were laid away to |
rest These tombs were cut into the cliff, |
and there the ruthless Arab kicks their
crumbling or pulveriSCd bones about. IN
search OF relics, charms or ancient coins,
which he expects to exchange for u Franks
bagsish-a money gift. From BeyrOuth
tanclent BerOthal) we sailed pleasantly L /
Larnaka, in the island Of Kibgi5 O.
Cyprus. Cyprus, according to tic
map the reader has made o.
the right hand lays between the
end of the thumb and middle joint or
articulation OF the first finger in the bay
or corner between the thumb and fingers. |
Here we inspected some specimens of |
sculpture Of greaJ-aychGlogical value, said |
the representative of the Imperial Ottoman
bank. They pUrported TO be from the
ruins of Athena, two and a half hours
away, of GrRcO-ROmGn style from 200 |
b. c., etc. When l told him they had upon
them more Of the Assyrian stamp, he as
scented, but when ] noticed that the stones
of which they We're composed were merely !
soft calcarious rock. quite friable and easily .
fdeterioratcd, and still that 1000 supposed |
years had hardly changed a single feature. |
whereas q sphyuX in Egypt-one, for in
stance. not 1000 years old, has lost from of
the nose alone more than all the antiquities |
here put together, he merely looked dag
gers at me, as he may have anticipated |
buyer among some Of the wealthy looking .
NEnglish with which he fell in.
LAODICEA,
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