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ACHMET AND THE SENTRY 117
last great Moslem soldier's name in scant esteem,
glad, as one told me, to think him indeed the last.
For some English people Tokat may possess a
scarcely expected interest. In a garden of* the town
lies buried Henry Marty n, whose missionary labours
in India during the earlier part of last century are well
known. He died here on his way back to England.
So much I had heard, and did not suppose that
anything more was to be known ; but at Sivas I fell
in with a pamphlet giving further particulars. He
seems, unknown and unfriended, and his body
died, it
was thrown out unburied on the hills above the town.
Thence his whitened bones were recovered eventually
by an early pastor of the Tokat Protestant Church
and buried in the garden of the church house, where
a monument to him may now be seen.
In climbing to the castle we must have taken a way
never followed before, unless, perhaps, by stormers ; for
at the top we found an easy footpath ascending from
the farther side.
Followino^ it when returninor we came
to a guard-house near the bottom where paced a sentry
armed with rifle and bayonet. He stopped as we
approached, seemingly a good deal surprised at seeing
trespassers come down whom he had not seen go up.
His manner w-as that of one who had got into trouble
by neglect and was resolved to right himself somehow
; so he shouted that the castle was forbidden,
and ordered us to stop. Had I been alone I should
have obeyed promptly ; but Achmet went on unheeding,
and as he passed contemptuously slapped
his own bulky hinder parts for answer, and in the
shadow of this invaluable driver I likewise assumed
indifference and held on. Achmet's behaviour seemed
risky towards a sentry in harness, and in war-time
a sentry, moreover, who could prove duty faithfully
performed by bringing us down, and I asked why
he had acted in this fashion. For answer I received
the curt, sufficing word " Ermenie," which set me
wondering what was possible to a slim Armenian
sentry in dealing with an offensive heavy Moslem.