Note 16 — Chapter VIII · FROM MUSH TO ERZERUM

I am sensible of the defective standpoint of my photograph of Khinis, taken, to avoid suspicions, before entering the town.16 But it clearly shows the mingling rivers, with their cavernous beds, sunk into the volcanic soil. It shows the castle—of which the ruins display a face of hewn stone upon a structure of agglomerate rubble—and, in the background, behind the picturesque disorder of the clambering township, the distant terrace of the Bingöl plateau. At eleven o’clock on the 3rd of December we were winding our way in the shadowed gorges, about to issue upon the plain on the north.