OF TERROR—TREBIZOND AND ERZEROUM        341

CHAPTER XIII.

THE REIGN OF TERROR—VAN AND MOUSH        360

CHAPTER XIV.

THE REIGN OF TERROR—HARPOOT AND ZEITOUN        383

CHAPTER XV.

RELIEF WORK IN ARMENIA.

Mission Stations—The Christian Herald—Red Cross Society—Miss Clara Barton        400

CHAPTER XVI.

THE CURSE OF ISLAM.

Despotic in Government—Intolerant in Religion—Evils of Polygamy—Degradation of Women—Ignorance—Cruelty of Officials—Extortion—Universal Distress—No Advance Possible—The Turk never Improves—Islam—Worse and Worse—Its Rule is against Humanity        423

CHAPTER XVII.

THE GREATEST CRIME OF THE CENTURY.

England’s Inactivity—Her Solemn Obligation—Treaty of San Stefano—Berlin—Convention with Turkey—Cyprus—Occupation of Egypt—Position of the English Government—Difficulties in the Way—But the Suffering Awful—Freeman—Gladstone        433

CHAPTER XVIII.

AMERICA’S DUTY AND PRIVILEGE.

Possible Solution—Universal Arbitration—Constantinople a Free City—Europe Free—Armenia’s Sorrows Healed—The Dawning of the Twentieth Century        470

APPENDIX.

DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS        495