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274 ACROSS ASIA MINOR ON FOOT<br />

English and proffered whisky, calling it "Whisky of<br />

the ' Policeman Brand,' " and got down a bottle for<br />

my inspection. It was a brand wholly unknown to<br />

me, a name curiously ominous for whisky, and I did<br />

no more than look with awe at the bottle and its<br />

blue policeman and wonder how the name came to be<br />

given. But after a little I conjectured that it must<br />

be German whisky, masquerading in the simple Orient<br />

as the healthful and prospering liquor of that famous<br />

force which upholds British law.<br />

We came away with loaves of bread, cheese, tins<br />

of sardines and Bologna sausage, and my canteen<br />

flask filled with wine. We ate as we walked,<br />

travelling now with great contentment. Chancing<br />

to look back, I saw Ighsan with his face almost buried<br />

in a loaf of good yellow wheaten bread, at which he<br />

was tearing with his teeth, and now and then breathlessly<br />

ejaculating, " Sweet ! sweet<br />

"<br />

! We were more<br />

in want of food than we had supposed, Ighsan<br />

especially, although as a native he might have been<br />

expected to make better shift on yoicvhah. By all the<br />

theories of vegetarians this wholemeal pancake should<br />

have been adequate food in itself With no ill-will,<br />

however, 1 wish that such a dietetist could have<br />

demonstrated his theory daily beside us all the way<br />

from Develi Kara Hissar—for it was there we saw<br />

the last of bread in the form of loaves. He should<br />

have had as much youvhah and water as he called for,<br />

and as much milk and eggs and cheese as he could<br />

find. And if at the end he were not faint, not drawn<br />

in face, not short - tempered, and not ravenous for<br />

other food and drink, the correctness of his theories<br />

would have been established as never before.<br />

It must have been about noon when we left Ak<br />

Keupru and turned westward along the famous gorge.<br />

For the rest of the day we followed the ancient road<br />

between cliffs and crags and lofty mountains, with the<br />

railway and the brawling Chakia keeping us company<br />

in the narrow space. The road was excellent—a long<br />

scarcely perceptible ascent towards the interior except

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