CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PAGE

[Descend into Turkish Territory] 1

CHAPTER II

[To Lake Van] 11

CHAPTER III

[Across Lake Van] 25

CHAPTER IV

[Van] 38

CHAPTER V

[From Van to Bitlis] 116

CHAPTER VI

[Bitlis] 145

CHAPTER VII

[From Bitlis to Mush—Mush] 160

CHAPTER VIII

[From Mush to Erzerum] 174

CHAPTER IX

[Erzerum] 198

CHAPTER X

[Return to the Border Ranges—Θάλαττα, θάλαττα!] 225

CHAPTER XI

[Revisit Armenia] 237

CHAPTER XII

[Across the Central Tableland to Khinis] 245

CHAPTER XIII

[From Khinis to Tutakh] 254

CHAPTER XIV

[Down the Murad to Melazkert] 264

CHAPTER XV

[From Melazkert to Akhlat] 276

CHAPTER XVI

[Akhlat] 280

CHAPTER XVII

[Our Sojourn in the Crater of Nimrud] 298

CHAPTER XVIII

[Round Nimrud by Lake Nazik] 314

CHAPTER XIX

[Ascent of Sipan] 326

CHAPTER XX

[Back to the Central Tableland] 340

CHAPTER XXI

[Our Sojourn on Bingöl] 359

CHAPTER XXII

[Home across the Border Ranges] 379

CHAPTER XXIII

[Geographical] 383

CHAPTER XXIV

[Statistical and Political] 408

APPENDIX I

[National Constitution of the Armenians in the Turkish Empire] 445

APPENDIX II

[Chemical Constitution of some Armenian Lakes] 468

[BIBLIOGRAPHY] 471

[INDEX] 497