FUNEREAL ARCHITECTURE. 127 renders it an admirable subject for comparison. Then, too, we enjoyed a liberty of action unknown to our predecessors, whose operations had been impeded by the situation of the Agha's kiosk, built right over the monument. His public room stood over the tomb proper, whilst the grave-chamber was turned into a store- room. This particular Agha, said the old men of the place, was FIG. 82. Tomb at Ayazeen. Journal, Plate XXIX. one of the last representatives of old-fashioned Derey-Beys, or independent native princes, and noted for his atrocities ; suspicious, too, of any European lurking about, pencil in hand, as boding no good to the konak. By stealth only, and whilst this terrible ogre was enjoying his siesta, did De Laborde at last succeed in Voyage eTAsie Mineure, pp. 78, 79, Plates XXIX., LXIV., LXV. ; Earth, Reise, p. 90. But as these travellers gave no plan or measurement of the memorial, no good or exact idea could be formed of its style.
