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William Eleroy Curtis. Around the Black Sea
Around the Black Sea
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. CRUISING IN THE BLACK SEA
CHAPTER II. THE ANCIENT CITY OF TREBIZOND
CHAPTER III. RAILWAY CONCESSIONS IN TURKEY
CHAPTER IV. THE CAUCASUS
CHAPTER V. THE CITY OF TIFLIS
CHAPTER VI. MOUNT ARARAT AND THE OLDEST TOWN IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER VII. THE ARMENIANS AND THEIR PERSECUTION
CHAPTER VIII. THE MASSACRES OF 1909
CHAPTER IX. THE RESULTS OF AMERICAN MISSIONS
CHAPTER X. THE CASPIAN OIL FIELDS
CHAPTER XI. DAGHESTAN, AND ITS ANCIENT PEOPLES
CHAPTER XII. THE CIRCASSIANS AND THE COSSACKS
CHAPTER XIII. THE CRIMEA
CHAPTER XIV. SEVASTOPOL AND BALAKLAVA
CHAPTER XV. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND HER WORK
CHAPTER XVI. ODESSA—CAPITAL OF SOUTHERN RUSSIA
CHAPTER XVII. THE KINGDOM OF ROUMANIA
CHAPTER XVIII. THE NEW RÉGIME IN TURKEY
CHAPTER XIX. THE EMANCIPATION OF TURKISH WOMEN
CHAPTER XX. ROBERT COLLEGE AND OTHER AMERICAN SCHOOLS
INDEX
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William Eleroy Curtis
Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, the Crimea, Roumania
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If you will look on your map you will notice that Asia Minor is that part of Turkey which projects into the Mediterranean on the Asiatic side, an almost square peninsula about three hundred miles each way. It is bounded on the north by the Black Sea, on the east by Armenia and Kurdistan, on the south by Syria and the Mediterranean and on the west by the Ægean Sea. The western portion of Asia Minor is called Anatolia. It is densely settled by Turkish farmers who cultivate the ground in a primitive, awkward way, but do not realize more than half the value of their labour; first, because of their primitive tools and instruments and their imperfect cultivation, and, second, because there are no transportation facilities by which they can send their produce to market. There are two railways running into the interior from the Mediterranean coast, furnishing communication for about 10 per cent. of the population. Throughout 90 per cent. of Asia Minor the only way of travelling is on the back of a horse or a donkey and the only facility for moving freight is by caravans of camels, which are slow and very expensive. For these reasons the inhabitants depend to a great extent upon their own resources. They make everything they wear except cotton fabrics and have very little to ship away.
Almost directly south of Samsoun, about a hundred miles, is the Marsovan station of the American Board, first occupied in 1852, and for fifty-eight years the headquarters of missionary work, not only for that important city, but for a wide reach of country, including Samsoun, Amasia, and other important towns. The work has naturally been built up by a process of growth. Little day schools, teaching reading, writing, and spelling in the vernacular, have developed into two great institutions: Anatolia College, with its extensive buildings devoted to the collegiate training of young men, and the Girls’ High and Boarding School, an institution quite by itself, giving nearly the same complete course of study that is given to the young men.
