'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎25] (160/268)

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doubtedly at one time under Persian occupation. Marco Polo writing
in 1213, describes the Greater and Lesser Armenia, and places Sebaste,
as the king’s residence, in the latter. Wine is made here, but not
nearly so palatable as that of Kharbut. I met another Indian at this
place. He is said to be a petty trader, but is treated with much more
regard by the Turks than his appearance would warrant.
33. The town of Paswan Oghlu who, according to good authority,
held an independent dominion over
all the east of Asia Minor. Yuzgat
is still an important place, and may have its 10,000 or 15,000 inhabit
ants. There is something very desolate and dreary in the approach to
it through the hilly country on the Sivas side, but its mass of houses,
interspersed with mosques and minarets, breaks upon the traveller with
much of Oriental beauty and effect. The Telegraph Office is situate
in the heart of the town, and nothing can be worse or more slovenly
than the mode in which the wires find their way out to the posts on the
Angureh road. I attended one Sunday at Yuzgat the Protestant
service at the American Mission Chapel- The missionary, Mr.
Farnsworth, performed the whole in Turkish, and preached with great
ease and fluency. There were about a hundred present. I myself
counted thirty men and fifty boys, and I was told that there were
more females than enough to make up the three figures. These are
separated from the rest of the congregation by a wooden trellised wall.
They can be seen, and their children heard, but that is all. The
arrangement is a good one for an Eastern country. There were three
or four good faces among the boys, but on the whole the congregation
looked not only poor, but untidy and far from clean. I may add that
one or two exceptions were notable, and it was an agreeable surprise to
to find that after the service some half-dozen very respectable-look -
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comer. Many boys were tired, some unsteady ; but as a whole this
Armenian Protestant congregation was very orderly and attentive.
The Turkish pronounciation of this word, which we sometimes
miscall ‘ Angora,’ is one which would
Angureh. induce me to spell it ‘ Engureh.’ It
is a place of great interest, both from
ver J remarkable Roman remains and its own picturesque beauty.
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