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Clarence Douglas Ussher

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV A GAME OF BLUFF I HAD been in Van but ten days when my work, which had begun the evening of my arrival, was interrupted by the first of dozens of trips that I have undertaken, either on professional errands or as escort to newcomers. Miss Elizabeth Barrows, sent by the Woman's Board of Missions to take charge of the girls' schools in Van, and Miss Virginia Wilson, sent by the Friends of Armenia in London to assist Dr. Raynolds in his work for the orphans, had just left Constantinople on their way via Trebizond to the interior, when Mr. Peet telegraphed Van station, " Meet ladies with saddles Erzerum." I traveled to Erzerum by way of Bitlis, having been asked to do so by telegram, as Miss Charlotte Ely had fallen ill since my stop there in October. From Bitlis I took with me as servant a man who had accompanied to Erzerum in 1896 a party of missionaries, among whom were Mrs. Knapp, Sr., Mrs. Knapp, Jr., and Mr. Herbert [Allen, and just before we reached a particularly dangerous place in the mountains near Madjidlu, where the road was only a goat-path along the edge of a precipitous slope, he told me what had happened there on his former journey. The ladies were riding in moffahs -- large boxes with canopies -- hung on each side of a mule, some tipping of whose pack-saddle caused him to place a hind foot too near the edge of the path; the earth gave way, and down went the beast, head over heels, in spite of Garabed's hold on the halter. Mr. Allen, also seizing the halter, was pulled out of his saddle and described a halfcircle through the air. Ladies, moffahs, and mule rolled over and over down the precipitous slope for three hundred feet, landing in a snowbank upside down, the animal's four feet sticking straight up between the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An American Physician in Turkey; A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War. To get started finding An American Physician in Turkey; A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV A GAME OF BLUFF I HAD been in Van but ten days when my work, which had begun the evening of my arrival, was interrupted by the first of dozens of trips that I have undertaken, either on professional errands or as escort to newcomers. Miss Elizabeth Barrows, sent by the Woman's Board of Missions to take charge of the girls' schools in Van, and Miss Virginia Wilson, sent by the Friends of Armenia in London to assist Dr. Raynolds in his work for the orphans, had just left Constantinople on their way via Trebizond to the interior, when Mr. Peet telegraphed Van station, " Meet ladies with saddles Erzerum." I traveled to Erzerum by way of Bitlis, having been asked to do so by telegram, as Miss Charlotte Ely had fallen ill since my stop there in October. From Bitlis I took with me as servant a man who had accompanied to Erzerum in 1896 a party of missionaries, among whom were Mrs. Knapp, Sr., Mrs. Knapp, Jr., and Mr. Herbert [Allen, and just before we reached a particularly dangerous place in the mountains near Madjidlu, where the road was only a goat-path along the edge of a precipitous slope, he told me what had happened there on his former journey. The ladies were riding in moffahs -- large boxes with canopies -- hung on each side of a mule, some tipping of whose pack-saddle caused him to place a hind foot too near the edge of the path; the earth gave way, and down went the beast, head over heels, in spite of Garabed's hold on the halter. Mr. Allen, also seizing the halter, was pulled out of his saddle and described a halfcircle through the air. Ladies, moffahs, and mule rolled over and over down the precipitous slope for three hundred feet, landing in a snowbank upside down, the animal's four feet sticking straight up between the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An American Physician in Turkey; A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War. To get started finding An American Physician in Turkey; A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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