[2] The intermediate distances along the route described in this chapter were as follows:—Uran Gazi viâ Leter and Lake Bulama to Gop, 32 miles; Gop to Charbahur, deviating to the confluence of the Bingöl Su (Khinis) with the Murad, 52¾ miles; Charbahur to Gumgum, 6¾ miles; Gumgum to Gundemir, 9¼ miles. Total, 100¾ miles. [↑]
[3] Mytilus (Congeria) polymorphus. [↑]
[4] Layard (Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, London, 1853, p. 20) speaks of it under the name of the Lake of Shailu. [↑]
[5] The distances are as follows:—Gop to Karaogli (including one considerable deviation), 12¾ miles; Karaogli to Shakhberat, 10 miles; Shakhberat to Charbahur, 30 miles. Total, 52¾ miles. [↑]
[6] A horse’s knee would represent a depth of 1 foot 5 inches, and a horse’s girth 2 feet 9 inches. [↑]
CHAPTER XXI
OUR SOJOURN ON BINGÖL
Gundemir is an Armenian village of considerable size, better built than is usually the case ([Fig. 191]). It possesses an ancient church, and the houses cluster round it, rising up the slope of a little eminence from the plain. The place is evidently as old as the hills. Several groves of lofty poplars spring from the surface of the level ground, which extends in all directions except on the north. One will enclose a field of cabbage, another fringes a tobacco plantation, with the large and luscious leaves. Most of the male inhabitants were absent in their yaila; the women were busy threshing this season’s corn. The head man was present, one Avedis Effendi; and he supplied all our wants with the utmost zeal. We were glad to be back in an Armenian village, after our experience of the Circassians at Charbahur.
