The Turks of Erzroom found it hard to comprehend from what country the travellers came.

Kars, Tiflis, Shoosha, and Echmiadzin had been subjected to Russian rule.

Tiflis was the capital of Georgia.

Shoosha, where they arrived about the middle of August, worn down by fatigue in descending the insalubrious valley of the Koor, or Cyrus, was then the seat of a German mission, which gave a cordial reception to their American brethren.

The cholera prevailed in all that region, and it was estimated that as many as seventy thousand people died of it, during the two months and a half our travellers spent in Shoosha.