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CHAPTER XVI. The Battered Caravanserai
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Two days later, in the evening, we came to Angora, the first stage in our journey.
The passports had arrived next morning, as Frau von Einem had promised, and with them a plan of our journey. More, one of the Companions, who spoke1 a little English, was detailed2 to accompany us—a wise precaution, for no one of us had a word of Turkish. These were the sum of our instructions. I heard nothing more of Sandy or Greenmantle or the lady. We were meant to travel in our own party.
We had the railway to Angora, a very comfortable German Schlafwagen, tacked3 to the end of a troop-train. There wasn’t much to be seen of the country, for after we left the Bosporus we ran into scuds4 of snow, and except that we seemed to be climbing on to a big plateau I had no notion of the landscape. It was a marvel5 that we made such good time, for that line was congested beyond anything I have ever seen. The place was crawling with the Gallipoli troops, and every siding was packed with supply trucks. When we stopped—which we did on an average about once an hour—you could see vast camps on both sides of the line, and often we struck regiments6 on the march along the railway track. They looked a fine, hardy7 lot of ruffians, but many were deplorably ragged8, and I didn’t think much of their boots. I wondered how they would do the five hundred miles of road to Erzerum.
Blenkiron played Patience, and Peter and I took a hand at picquet, but mostly we smoked and yarned9. Getting away from that infernal city had cheered us up wonderfully. Now we were out on the open road, moving to the sound of the guns. At the worst, we should not perish like rats in a
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