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248 ACROSS ASIA MINOR ON FOOT<br />

his feet were wrapped in blood-stained rags ; he had<br />

marched a long way and looked altogether spent<br />

and woe-begone. They spoke of him as a robber<br />

of known reputation. Some weeks earlier he had<br />

attached himself to a travelling merchant as a fellowwayfarer<br />

; as the next proceeding he had knifed the<br />

merchant and taken his property ; now he was on<br />

his way to trial, and perhaps a sentence of twenty<br />

years, which is the maximum Turkish penalty for<br />

murder.<br />

Without any warning my fever recurred this<br />

evening and continued for twenty-four hours, a<br />

period of which I have no remembrance. I spent<br />

the day at the khan, and on the second morning<br />

was fit to travel again.

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