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Title: Across Asia Minor on foot
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Childs, W. J
Subjects: Turkey -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cone was ashop. Another was a kahveh, outside of which mensitting over their coffee in morning sunlight found mea deal more surprising than anything else in thevalley when I halted and took coffee myself, to tastethe drink of a strange world. I asked what thisvillage was called, and a man said it was Matyan,and carefully repeated the name several times. I heard the name with a shock. There had beena bishopric of Matiane in these parts in old days, andthe notion of a prelate as troglodyte was not to beabsorbed quickly nor without difficulty. But this nodoubt was the place which had given its name to thesee, and nothing here could ever have been greatlydifferent to what it was now. It was necessary,therefore, to think that the bishops had accommo-dated themselves to their surroundings. Did thebishops of Matiane live in a hollowed cone ? Onehas no doubt that they did ; that in one of thesecones they transacted the business of their office,ruled a clergy similarly housed, and kept an eye
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EARLY MONASTIC LIFE 229 upon monasteries also hewn in the rock—for suchalDounded, and at one time are said to have absorbeda great part of the adult male population. And hereone is led to suspect a worldly rather than a spiritualprompting to monastic life in earlier Cappadocia, andthroughout the Byzantine Empire generally. Somesay that as a monk of those days you held yourestates and other possessions with greater securitythan as a layman : that at least you enjoyed a lightertaxation: and that at one period you might, byadroit legal contrivance, convert your sumptuousmansion into a private monastery for yourself—anda few dependent brothers, to give the scheme colour—and so be firmly seized of both worlds. Nay more,that as a monk you did not feel yourself free to go tothe wars, your countrys great extremity notwith-standing. One cone which I examined was nearly forty feetacross the base, and rose to more than eighty, andthe thickness of wall beside the door was about eightfeet. S

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