Excerpt from The Eye of Zeitoon T IS written with authority of Tarsus that once it was I no mean city, but that is a tale Of nineteen centuries ago. The Turko - Italian \var had not been fought when Fred Oakes took the fever of the place, although the stage was pretty nearly set for it and most of the lead ing actors were waiting for their cue. N 0 more history was needed than to grind away forgotten loveliness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.