Identifier: acrossasiaminoro00chiluoft (find matches)
Title: Across Asia Minor on foot
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Childs, W. J
Subjects: Turkey -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t before bringing them indoors,—that beingthe careful native custom. All natives know that a freshly-lighted mangal iscapable of killing every soul in a closed room, andare careful therefore in the use of these fires. Inci-dentally it may be remarked that they think thisknowledge peculiar to the country, and not sharedby foreigners. Call for a mangal at a khan, and itis placed outside the door, with explicit instructionsto let it remain there until it has burnt to a clearglow ; you may notice also that from time to timea careful Man-keeper or his man will come and makesure that you have not been impatient, and that all isstill well with you. To these sophisticated people ofthe East a European seems much the simpleton inmany matters. Dwellers in Talas see no more of Argaeus from theirhomes than if that mountain did not exist, althoughthe summit is not fifteen miles away; for Ali Daghintervenes, a hump of mountain like a vast pit-headheap, and rises three thousand feet above the town.
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A Glen in Talas. ALI DAGH AND ARGAEUS 185 Cross a ravine from the romantic streets of Talas, andyou are on the steep slope of Ali Dagh, which goes upso abruptly and with such economy of distance that,in spite of snow, I reached the top by a zigzag pathin an hour and a half, and returned down a gully ofrolling stones in half the time. No position givesso good a view of Argaeus as the ridge of AliDagh,—the two summits are only twelve miles apartby air-line, and the one becomes a grand-stand forthe other. From Ali Dagh the giant is seen as awhole, and his detachment from outlying heightsbecomes more apparent than ever, A deep narrowvalley, in which roads and fields are seen as in amap, separates the great mountain from the lesser.You see the whole profile of Argaeus from base tosummit on two sides, see the lower slopes steepen,see the domical mounds which surround the mountainat about a third the way up, and then see the upperbulk heaved into air in an unsymmetrical obtuse cone.I saw A

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