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A GERMAN COLONY 89
businesses ; and in all things were thorough and
prospered. They do not seem, however, to have
been able to maintain their nationality. Intermarriage
with Armenians began during the first generation,
and now no German colony as such remains.
But a strain of German blood is evident enough in
the appearance and characteristics of all descended
from the colonists. One of these German-Armenians
became a revolutionist and leader of note in his world.
Report says that Turkish rule became intolerable to
him in youth, and that earlier than most of his purely
Armenian compatriots he reached the stage of taking
to the mountains in rebellion. After years of adventure
he was shot in fight, lacking adequate support.
Another of these German -Armenians I had the
satisfaction of meeting several times, and very interesting
I found him. When a young man he
reached Berlin, and became Assistant Professor of
Turkish in the University there, but after some years
was drawn back to Asia Minor. One would call him
remarkably capable, and find it hard to understand
why he should prefer living in an inland Turkish
town when his abilities and acquirements fitted him
for a sphere altogether greater. In manner and
appearance he was German, despite his Armenian
father. He was fluent in various languages, and as
archaeologist, botanist, and explorer, had a remarkably
full topographical knowledge of Asia Minor.
One of his incidental activities lay in taking and
recording aneroid readings of heights—a usefuL
terest in a country never accurately surveyed*;;;/
Although Germans are not usually thoug^^^o take
much interest in this part of Asia Minoiv^hey are
still attracted to it, perhaps as part of the whole.
A few miles from Amasia is another and more recent
German colony, a small one certainly, yet with
curious features. It commands much capital, but is
said to make no profit, and is called a rich man's
hobby. At Mount Carmel and other places in Syria
are German colonies on an ambitious scale, self-