CHAPTER XXII.

MASSACRES AT TREBIZOND AND ERZRUM.

Importance and General Prosperity of Both Cities--Threats by the Turks--Terror Among the Armenians--Suddenness of the Attacks--Murder and Pillage by Regular Soldiers, Under the Eye of Foreign Consuls--Ferocity of the Turks--Testimony of Eye-Witnesses--Terrible Scenes at the Burial of the Victims 406