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Photograph of Captain Alan Bott

ALIAS FRITZ RICHTER

Photograph of Captain Alan Bott, taken in Constantinople while he was aprisoner. Captain Bott signed it in the name of "Fritz Richter, FirstLieutenant in the German Flying Corps." While escaping, he was able, bymeans of the false signature, to convince a Turkish gendarme that hewas a German officer wearing mufti.


EASTERN NIGHTS—AND FLIGHTS

A Record of Oriental Adventure


BY

CAPTAIN ALAN BOTT

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GARDEN CITY      NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN


TO

D. O. V.


Transcriber's Note: Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, andhyphenation have been retained as printed.


CONTENTS

  PAGE
Prologue.Through the Looking Glass3
CHAPTER  
I.Pain, Purgatory, and a Plan13
II.The Flight That Failed27
III.Nazareth; and the Christian Charity of a Jew39
IV.Damascus; and the Second Failure64
V.The Berlin-Bagdad Railway; and the Aeroplanes That Never Flew90
VI.Cuthbert, Alfonso, and a Mud Village110
VII.In the Shadow of the Black Rock124
VIII.Constantinople; and How to Become Mad140
IX.Introducing Theodore the Greek, John Willie the Bosnian, and David Lloyd George's Second Cousin159
X.The Third and Fourth Failures175
XI.A Greek Waitress, a
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