Meeting with Remarkable Man 2

On reaching Echmiadzin I went directly, as was the custom, to worship at all the holy places. I then went into the town to look for a lodging, but it was impossible to find one, since all the inns (hotels did not exist then) were full and more than full; and so I decided to [...]

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Meeting with remarkable man

V MR. X OR CAPTAIN POGOSSIAN SARKIS POGOSSIAN, or as he is now called, Mr. X, is at the present time the owner of several ocean steamers, one of which, cruising among his favourite places, between the Sunda and Solomon Islands, he commands himself. By race an Armenian, he was born in Turkey, but spent [...]

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