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most obvious and feasible and profitable, if you premise
a great wealthy military and commercial State
endeavouring to achieve such ends as part of an
imperial policy, and content to be patient.
I reached Adana in the evening, expecting to find
it little more than a heap of ruins. The massacre
had taken place three years before, yet since I
left Sams^in scarcely a day had passed on which
I did not hear some reference to the event. But
instead of stagnation and ruin I found shops lit up,
cafes thronged, cotton -mills humming, the streets
crowded, and from the railway station such a rush
of furiously driven cabs as no other Turkish town
can show. I found, in fact, a throbbing town of
100,000 inhabitants, with an unmistakable air of prosperity
and confidence in the future. Compared with
Adana, the cities of the interior—Sivas, Kaisariyeh,
and Konia—were cities in the quietude of decay.