Mission Stations--The Christian Herald--Red Cross Society-- Miss Clara Barton 400 CHAPTER XVI. THE CURSE OF ISLAM. Despotic in Government--Intolerant in Religion--Evils of Polygamy--Degradation of Women--Ignorance--Cruelty of Officials--Extortion--Universal Distress--No Advance Possible --The Turk never Improves--Islam--Worse and Worse--Its Rule is against Humanity 423 CHAPTER XVII. THE GREATEST CRIME OF THE CENTURY. England's Inactivity--Her Solemn Obligation--Treaty of San Stefano--Berlin--Convention with Turkey--Cyprus--Occupation of Egypt--Position of the English Government--Difficulties in the Way--But the Suffering Awful--Freeman--Gladstone 433 CHAPTER XVIII. AMERICA'S DUTY AND PRIVILEGE. Possible Solution--Universal Arbitration--Constantinople a Free City--Europe Free--Armenia's Sorrows Healed--The Dawning of the Twentieth Century 470 APPENDIX. DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS 495 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page Massacre of Armenians by Police, Softas and Kurds Frontispiece. Great and Little Ararat from the Northeast 19 Armenian Types and Costumes 38 Monastic Rock Chambers at Gueremeh 55 The Sultan Abdul Hamid in the Park of the Yildiz Palace 74 Types of Softas 91 "The Turks are upon us," A Panic in Stamboul 110 The New Grand Vizier on His Way to the Sublime Porte 127 Explaining the Inflammatory Placards 146 Taking Armenian Prisoners to the Grand Zaptie Prison 163 British Cabinet Debating the Armenian Question 182 The British Mediterranean Fleet 199 Types and Costumes.--Kurdish Gentlemen 218 A Common Scene in the Streets of Erzeroum 235 Armenian Peasant Women Weaving Turkish Carpets 254 Armenian Peasants Fleeing to Russia 271 Armenian Women, Province of Van 290 Armenian Mountaineer of Shadokh 307 Grand Mosque and Interior of Urfah 324 Passage Boat on the Arras 343 Arresting the Murderers of Armenians 362 Sketches of Armenia and Kurdestan 379 Refugees and Policemen at an Armenian Church 398 A Prayer for Revenge 415