Skulls and heads of massacred Christians.
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| The Blight of Asia CHAPTER I |
"So imminent and ever-present was the peril, and so fresh the memory of these dire events in the minds of the non-Mussulman subjects of the sultan, that illiterate Christian mothers had fallen into the habit of dating events as so many years before or after "such and such a massacre."" |