This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...distributed among the poor. As I noticed this morning the tethered lambs, on passing the cottages of Christians, so, for a few days before the Kurban-bairam1, I saw fine fat sheep tied up in half the shops of the bazar of Khania. At a few minutes after one I arrive at Rhamne, and obtain some refreshment in the house of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...distributed among the poor. As I noticed this morning the tethered lambs, on passing the cottages of Christians, so, for a few days before the Kurban-bairam1, I saw fine fat sheep tied up in half the shops of the bazar of Khania. At a few minutes after one I arrive at Rhamne, and obtain some refreshment in the house of my former host2. 1 See above, p. 21. See Vol. i. p. 68. 162 ARRIVAL AT IPO. CHAP. At two o'clock I leave Rhamne, and, in about an hour and a quarter, arrive at Pemdnia: in descending towards this village, I had a fine view of the plain of Apokdrona, bounded by the Sfakian mountains on the right and by the gulf of Armyrd before us, Mount Ida of course remaining in sight. Fre, one of the most considerable villages of Apokdrona, is only about a mile distant from Pemdnia: olive-trees cover the plain between the two places. At Fre I remained about an hour with the priest of the village: he was one of the deputies sent to Murnies last autumn, and also one of the delegates who carried petitions to the Consuls. It is said that his name was included in the list of the proscribed, but that remonstrances were made to the Pasha by some of those about his person, respecting the disgrace of suffering the execution of a man in whose house he had so often eaten bread and drank water. The Papas's house was for some time the Pasha's head-quarters, when the Arab troops were cantoned in the different villages of Apokdrona. I leave Fre at half past five, and, after passing the village of Dzidzife, I arrive at 'Ipos at a quarter before seven: I lodge in the house of a gossip of my Sfakian guide. The corn-land in the plain of Apokdrona usually gives a return of from fifteen to twenty fold the quantity of seed. I am assured that, not long ago, three measures of barl...
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