PART I

BRUSA TO DIARBEKR

"It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence. Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt; Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd; Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd; Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried."...

BY DESERT WAYS TO BAGHDAD