This has been a stirring day.

The Superintendent of the railway put a train at our disposal, and did us the further kindness of accompanying us to Ephesus and giving to us his watchful care.

We brought sixty scarcely perceptible donkeys in the freight cars, for we had much ground to go over.

We have seen some of the most grotesque costumes, along the line of the railroad, that can be imagined.

I am glad that no possible combination of words could describe them, for I might then be foolish enough to attempt it.
At ancient Ayassalook, in the midst of a forbidding desert, we came upon long lines of ruined aqueducts, and other remnants of architectural grandeur, that told us plainly enough we were nearing what had been a metropolis, once.