Dr.Grant's health had improved amid all his hardships.
Learning that Mr.Homes was detained at Constantinople, he started for Trebizond on the eighteenth, with no attendant except the surijee from the post-house, and there took a steamer for Constantinople.

Mr.Homes not being yet able to accompany him, he returned alone to Erzroom, and proceeded thence to Diarbekir, where he arrived May 30.

He found the city waiting in suspense for news from the battle of Nizib, between the forces of Mohammed Ali and the Sultan.

The defeat of the latter was soon manifest in the arrival of hundreds of fugitives, completely stripped by the Koords.

Anarchy reigned from that moment, and the city was filled with robbery and murder.