SOMETHING LIKE A PATRIOT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

SOMETHING LIKE A PATRIOT.

Tin: following letter appears in the Atme'nia : — "I, tho undersigned, srpf the village of A — , of- Vain," aujjTa working porter in this oouwtry. My , grandfather whs a Jr.M^lilsv {oafei' tain), my father ii l.malord. Atcneui.ms, Turks, Neitoriniii, Kurd-, aud Yczidid have all broken bread in our house. During the Russo-TurkitUi war Turkish soldiers and Kurd* made a wreck of our house and premises. They requisitioned our carts and oxen aud drove u» towards B'ljuzid On the road they out my father* throat like that of *heop~this fact is known to nil men. I escaped miraculously from the haudu of those murderous n>BU3siu-\ making, however, a holocaust of a few of them to ray father f noiil. Dunug five years I exercised the calling of a hauial nt Constantinople. With much abstinence, hunger, and thirst I saved £20. As I was returning home to comfort my poor and helpless family a baud of Erzerotim Turks robbed us at Pdlan Teukeu. I entered our desolute house with sighs of despair : my wife am children met with tauri. I could soircel^ remain a month, the ooldiemaud zipueti-, rhe Kurds uud my credit** « besieged mv on every nide. Once more 1 set my face towards foreign lands. Two yeuis hare no w passed. With untold uxe.tion I have saved £13 from my food aud oth> r indispensable expenses. Of tills sum i huewith send £2 as au offering to the proprietor of the Armenia, Mat ho ma , purchase paper and publish the griefs oour.oountry, and £2 to Mr G. Hagopiau, of London, who is working for the freedom of Armenia. - Your humble servant, M cli ki ant Moushegh. CypniH, Dec 29, 1885.' P.S.— These word* were spoken to me by the hamal Melikiantz Mou*begb, and I.tqok them down one by oue.— — - >- (the nignstareof the schoolmaster bo-o at Zeitoun, in the .Tauru* Mountains)."