"Is it this jinn that makes your men wear the hard black hats and the tight black clothes?"
"And it is not only our clothes," I added; "the jinn says we may not think differently from other people, or if we do, we must hide it."
"Is it a sin that your country has committed that it is thus condemned," he went on, "or is the jinn an evil spirit under whose curse it lies?"
"We do not know," I said. "There are some of the younger men who are trying to discover; they do not do as the jinn says, and so they do not live happily amongst others; many of them live apart, and we call them cranks and are afraid of them."
"No, they are good men as a rule, but in our country we do not understand the people who do not do what others do."
"But if you all do the same," said Hassan, "how can you progress? We in the East have not changed our customs, so we do not progress. Do you never change then either, you in the West?"
"We change very slowly," I answered, "because we tend to the thought that if a thing has always been, then it is good."
Chumra. Kisilkeui. Karaman. Adeteppe. Buadjik. Eregli. Tchaym. Ulu Kishla. Boulghar Maden. Chiftekhan. Ak Kupru. Gulek Boghaz. A Khan. Tarsus.
Hours. Missis 4 Small village with khan. Hamidieh 4-1/2 Cotton-mills and town. Kalakeui 5 Small Kurdish village. Osmanieh 1-1/2 Town. Bagtsche 6 Village. Shekasskeui 5 Village with khan. Avjilar 5 Small Kurdish village. No khan. Aintab 5 Town. Urral 5 Village with khan. Birejik 5 Town. Ferry across Euphrates. Abermor 6 Kurdish huts. Karekeui 6 Kurdish huts. Urfa 3-1/2 Town. Sheksheligher 7 Khan. Mismischen 7 Large khan. Severek 6 Town. Kaimach 7 Large khan. Gergeli 6 Small Kurdish village. Diarbekr 3-1/2
Hours. Menasseyeh No village. Fellujah 6 Village on Euphrates. Rumadeyeh 6 Village on Euphrates. _Hit_ 10 Town on Euphrates. Bagdadi 8 Ruined water-mill on Euphrates. Hadittah 8 Village on Euphrates. Fukaymeh 6-1/2 Large khan on Euphrates. _Ana_ 7 Town on Euphrates. Niteyah 8 Guard-house on Euphrates. Gayyim 9-1/2 Guard-house on Euphrates. Abu Kamal 5 Village on Euphrates. Salihiyyeh 7 Khan with a few Arab huts. Micardin 9-1/2 Village. Deir-el-Zor 7 Town. Pools of brackish water 2-1/2 Guard-house 8 Well of bad water. Bir Jeddid 8 Well of bad water. Suknak 9 Village with hot sulphur springs. Erek 8-1/2 Village. Tadmor 6 Palmyra. Baytha 6 Khan with bad water. Gusayr 16 (Camping-place half-way, where water is found early in the year). Karietein 7 Village. Nasariyeh 12 Village. Kutayfah 5 Village. Guard-house 2 Damascus 4