Thurs 18 [18 July 1907] Went out carpet buying with Mrs W [Doughty Wylie] and Trad and bought some delightful killims. After lunch Mr Callander turned up and stayed to dinner. A nice French engineer came in to tea. He has been out here 2 years and came straight out from Paris. He says the Europeans on the line are too few and too hard worked. It's almost impossible for them to get leave. He talked of the Beysheher [Beysehir] irrigation scheme which seems to be on the eve of being carried out and of a plan to rebuild and revive the Seljuk baths at Ilghin [Ilgin]. Captain DW and went [sic] to Miss Penner's[?] house (it is Miss Gerber's but she is away) and saw in her garden an interesting stone, a double arch of a double window carved with peacocks and entrelacs. It came from the ruins of the Seljuk palace near by but is certainly Xian. Also a bit of a round column. All the round columns in the mosque of Ala ed Din are round by the way. Trad came in very late and stayed till 8.15 when we dined. I went to bed after dinner to pack and make ready for tomorrow.