Malatia is located about midway between Marash and Harpoot, a little
distance from the Euphrates river. More fruit is raised in and about
there than in any other section of Armenia. The assortment is large,
but the apples and pears are especially fine, perhaps better than those
of any part of the world. It has about 20,000 population, two-thirds
being Mohammedans, and one-third Armenians. The private letters
which have been received from there do not state, and cannot state
how many Armenians have been killed during the period of the present
persecutions, and it is not likely there ever will be any correct
estimate of them. The region has suffered immensely, and letters from
there reveal a most distressing condition of affairs. The people were
plundered and violated in every conceivable way until there was nothing
more for the time being for the fiends to wreak their cruelty upon.
Letters from Malatia.
Malatia, Dec. 22, 1895.