The ḥammâl’s confidence in the arabajî had not been misplaced; we set out next morning for the Ḳara Dâgh, and every mile was full of delightful reminiscence. The yellow roses dropped their petals in familiar fashion over the mountain path, mullein and borage spread their annual carpet of blue and gold between the ruins, and the peak of Mahalech, on which I had found a Hittite inscription and a Christian monastery, stood guardian, as of old, over the green cup wherein had lain an ancient city. The sturdy Yuruks came striding down from their high yailas to bid us a joyful coming and a slow departure; many were the greetings that passed round the camp fire, and it was well that Fattûḥ had laid in a good provision of coffee at Ḳaramân. So on a hot morning we struck our last camp and rode down the northern slopes of the mountain to rejoin the railway by which we were to travel to Konia. And as we crossed the level plain Fattûḥ observed with satisfaction: “The cornland has increased since two years ago. Effendim, there is twice as much sown ground.” “Praise God!” said I. “It is the doing of the railway.” “Wherever it passes the corn springs up,” said Fattûḥ. “Mâshallah! Konia will become a great city.” “It has grown in our knowledge,” said I. “But this year we shall find it much changed, for all our friends have left.” “Where have they gone?” inquired Fattûḥ. “Riza Beg is in Salonica,” said I, mentioning one who had eaten out his heart in exile for ten weary years. “He has gone back to his wife and child.” “He would make haste to join them,” assented Fattûḥ. “And Meḥmet Pasha is in Constantinople. I saw his name among those who helped to depose the Sultan.” “He has risen to high honour,” said Fattûḥ. Meḥmet Pasha was another of the proscribed. “And Suleimân Effendi is deputy for Konia, where he was so long in exile. Oh Fattûḥ, we shall be strangers there now that our friends have gone.” “Your Excellency will meet them in other cities,” said Fattûḥ. “And they will be free men.” INDEX Abbâsid Sâmarrâ, 242 Abu ’Atiḳ, ruins of, 66, 68, 110 Abu Bekr, tekîyeh of, 10, 15 Abu Dulâf, minaret of, 211, 213, 214; mosque of, 243 _and note_^{1-46}, 246 _note_^{1} Abu Ḥanîfah, shrine of, 188 Abu Jîr, ruins of, 123, 124, 125, 127 Abu Kemâl, village of, 77, 81-82, 84, 85 Abu’l Ḥassan, tell of, 81, 111, 112-13 Abu Sa’îd, 63, 65, 101, 110, 111 Abu Tuṭah, 61 Aburas (Khâbûr), the, 109 Adana, massacre of Christians at, 251, 252, 302-3, 331-32, 349 ’Aḍêm, the, 204 _and note_^{5} Aeipolis (Hît), 110, 111, 114 Afâḍleh, the, 53 Ager Romanorum, the, 307 ’Ain el ’Aṣfûrîyeh, 124 ’Ain el ’Awâsil, 124 ’Ain et Tamr, oasis of, 135, 139; history, 156, 157 ’Ain Nakhîleh, village of, 26 ’Ain Tâb, 32 ’Ain Tell, Spring of, 9 ’Ain Za’zu’, spring at, 118-19, 122 ’Aiwir, ruin of, 118 Ajmîyeh, 89, 90 Akcheh Dâgh, the, 339 _and note_^{1} Akhaya Kala, island of, 99 Ala Klisse, decoration in, 155 Albistân, 342