Across Asia On a Bicycle; the Journey of Two American Students From Constantinople to Peking
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They listened throughout with profound attention, then looked at one another in silence, and gravely shook their heads. They coiild not believe it. It was impossible. Old Ararat stood above us grim and terrible beneath the twinkling stars. To them it was. as it always will be, the same mysterious, un trodden height — -the palace of the jinn. Ill THROUGH PERSIA TO SAMARKAND "TT is all bosh," was the all but universal opinion of J- Bayazid in regard to our alleged ascent of Ararat. None but the P...ersian consul and the mutessarif himself deigned to profess a belief in it, and the gift of several letters to Persian officials, and a sumptuous dinner on the eve of our departure, went far toward proving their sincerity. On the morning of July 8, in company with a body- guard of zaptiehs, which the mutessarif forced upon us, we wheeled down from the ruined embattlements of Bay- azid. The assembled rabble raised a lusty cheer at part- ing. An hour later we had surmounted the Kazlee Grool, and the " land of Iran " was before us.
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