Martyred Armenia and the Story of My Life (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...tropic rainstorm, with yellow sunlight shining through and under and over it, was slanting crystally down across the Alaghez, the Alaghez being vigorously outlined against ponderously heavy hills lying over against the south. A swift wind was spreading long streaks of mist against the green of the eastern slopes, while the cup's gleaming brim lifted itself high up against the farthest faraway. A vast world; the broadest landscape I ever saw, and with the river Araxes like a brown skirl of ribbon winding across it. "There were giants in the earth in those days." Companioned as I was by Ararat my mind reached out in a vain effort to vision the Deluge, and this sentence recurred to me insistently. "There were giants in the earth in those days." God made it a land to be peopled by giants and that eventually it should have "repented the Lord that he had made man" seemed to me a curious commentary on Divinity's original judgment. A boundless prodigality in mere scenic construction, then a cast for the Divine Comedy that would not do Souvenirs Worth Having "It repented the Lord that he had made man," so He sent the Deluge and in time brought Noah in his ark--with his kith and kin and "of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort"--to rest on Ararat whil the waters and his colossal wrath subsided. The ark, they say, rested between Big and Little Ararat, somewhere in that eternally snowfilled chasm that is sixty miles across. No, not just somewhere. They point out the very spot and tell you, quite as though they believed it to be true, that certain great personages still possess small pieces of the ark that have comr down to them through the generations. Somr souvenirs Would you not say so? I though a few ...