infants who can utter no complaint; he leaves
them under the heat of the sun, thirsty and famishing, to be devoured by
wild creatures.

Leaving the boy, our hearts burning within us, and full of grief and
anguish, we arrived before sunset at a _khan_ some hours distant from
Diarbekir. There we passed the night, and in the morning we went on amid
the mangled forms of the slain. The same sight met our view on every
side; a man lying, his breast pierced by a bullet; a woman torn open by
lead; a child sleeping his last sleep beside his mother; a girl in the
flower of her age, in a posture which told its own story. Such was our
journey until we arrived at a canal, called Kara Pounar, near
Diarbekir, and here we found a change in the method of murder and
savagery.

We saw here bodies burned to ashes. God, from whom no secrets are hid,
knows how many young men and fair girls, who should have led happy lives
together, had been consumed by fire in this ill-omened place.

We had expected not to find corpses of the killed near to the walls of
Diarbekir, but we were mistaken, for we journeyed among the bodies until
we entered the city gate. As I was informed by some Europeans who
returned from Armenia after the massacres, the Government ordered the
burial of all the bodies from the roadside when the matter had become
the subject of comment in European newspapers.

IN PRISON.--On our arrival at Diarbekir the officer handed us over to
the authorities and we were thrown into prison, where I remained for
twenty-two days. During this time I obtained full information about the
movement from one of the prisoners, who was a Moslem of Diarbekir, and
who related to me what had happened to the Armenians there. I asked him
what was the reason of the affair, why the Government had treated them
in this way, and whether they had committed any act calling for their
complete extermination. He said that, after the declaration of war, the
Armenians, especially the younger men, had failed to comply with the
orders of the Government, that most of them had evaded military service
by flight, and had formed companies which they called "Roof Companies."
These took money from the wealthy Armenians for the purchase of arms,
which they did not deliver to the authorities, but sent to their
companies, until the leading Armenians and Notables assembled, went to
the Government offices, and requested that these men should be punished
as they were displeased a