TCD MS 3416 page 66
[June 1916]
left Angora and started into the country on our 5 day treck eastward to YOZGAD, but the reader will read later on how we were really “jumping out of the frying pan into the fire”
Our road lay through very hilly country and we travelled over this continuously: the roads were very rough and the springless carts shook the very life out of ones body. The drivers got sleepy from time to time, and on one occasion one cart completely upset and fell to pieces – it was a wonder it’s occupants were not seriously hurt. MARDEN was reached on the morning the 27th and we rested there till 4 p.m. on the following day. At this place we put up in various inns and where allowed to go about anywhere in the town. In a certain portion of this town the Turks had collected a large number of Armenian women and children, but not a single man could be seen among them: they all looked very miserable and terrified, expecting, no doubt, to share the same fate as hundreds of thousands of other Christians. They were either not allowed or they were too terrified to leave their houses. The sight of white officers in that far off town was not a daily occurrence, in fact I doubt if many of them had seen a