The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-09-22
CONTINUED from Last Sunday
CHAPTER VI-"Ta-a-lim ell Almon!"

r HAVE often wondered since l came to America,
where life is so different from that of my country,
if any of the good people who sit and talk with
could imagine the sufferngs of that night the beginning
of which described last Sunday when lay in the
light the desert, my hands fastened behind my back
and my feet haltered to Arab horse.
There seems to be little of tragedy in this
try-so little of real suffering. hardly believe yet
though have been free many weeks now, that there
is land where there is punishment for believing in
God
1t was only few hours after the band of Kurds
tired of amusing themselves with and tied their
horses when the dawn broke and the Kurds
out unite their horses But it had seemed if those
few hours would never end. We too exhausted
frightened and ashamed to talk with each other and
feared to awake the Kurds lest fortunes begin again
1t is characteristic of the fercest Kurds that their
capves always fed The KurdS will rob and terribly
misrea their Victims especially the of the Chris
tians but they will not steal their food When their cap
tives have food they will share with them. The
Kurd is more of child than the Turk and nearly all the
wcednesS of these bandits of the desert inspired by
their Turkish masters.
When we had eaten of the bread and drank the water
they brought for the Kurds lifted onto their horses
and started to gaop toward the north There
girls than Kurds and shifted from horse to horse
frequently that double burdens might be shared among the
animals
We did not know where being taken, to
what. After many hours OF riding was shifted to the
of Kurd who would my pleading questions.
He told great pacha at Egn, city to the north
that he had down from COnSantnope especially to
take interest pretty Armenian girls. That he
paid money have Christian girls who healthy and
pleasing brought before him. And that the claw chief
the lesser Kurdish cheftan-was taking to Egin to
this Pacha
l wondered if were to undergo such another expe
rience as was mine at the hands of Kehmal Pacha of
which told on a previous Sunday.
Egin is the banks of the Kara Su, which is
branch of the Euphrates From Erzindan, Shabn Kara
HisSar and NkSar, large northern cities, thousands of
AmenanS had been brought to Egn Here special bands
of soldiers had been stationed TO superntend the
crcS of these Christians All around the hills and plains
outside the city huge piles of eOrpses still ncoH
cred. We passed long bitches which had been dug by
convicS released from Turkish prisons for that purpose
and in which attempt had been made to bury the
bodies of the Armenians But the cOnvicts had been in
such hurry get done the work for which they
to be given their liberty that the legs and of
and women still stuck out from the sand which had been
Scraped them
There had been many rich Armenian families in
Egin. 1t the meeting place of the rich caravans
from SamsOun, TrebizOnd and Marsovan bound for ar
pOut and Dyarbekr For many years the Turkish resi-
dents and the Armenans had been good neghbOrs When
the first orders for the deportation and reached
Egn the rich Armenian women ran to their Turkish
friends, the wives of rich aghas and beys and begged