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THE IONIAN ISLES 79
royal party in their tour of inspection. Large throngs
met them at the wharf, and followed them silently
through the streets. At any other time there would
have been great cheering and speechmaking; but
the royal visit seemed a sorrowful pilgrimage to min-
ister to stricken subjects, and there were more tears
than cheers. The king and queen went into churches
and monasteries, but especially into the wrecked
homes, and gave to many poor people that sympathy
which helps to bear trials. The king with his little
yachting cap looked like a naval officer, and the
queen, dressed in deep black, like the Sister of
Charity that she really is. Every one was impressed
with her simplicity and tender kindness.
Students of seismology found interesting material
for study in the earthquakes of 1893. The nine sub-
marine cables converging in Zante pass over known
seismic centres. In all the serious shocks which the
island has sustained since they were laid, the cables
in the path of the earthquake have been broken. In
the great convulsion of the 27th of August, 1886,
which preceded that qf Charleston, six miles of the
cable were buried by a landslide on the bottom of the
sea, which increased the depth from seven hundred
to nine hundred fathoms. The cable was never re-
covered, and another one was laid. A shock having
precisely the same characteristics, without the same
strength, occurred in 1873, and parted the cable six
miles away from Zante. In the catastrophe I have
described the cable was not affected.
Zante is composed of rock surrounded on the
southeast and northwest by a bank of yellow mud,
gradually shelving into forty or fifty fathoms two
royal party in their tour of inspection. Large throngs
met them at the wharf, and followed them silently
through the streets. At any other time there would
have been great cheering and speechmaking; but
the royal visit seemed a sorrowful pilgrimage to min-
ister to stricken subjects, and there were more tears
than cheers. The king and queen went into churches
and monasteries, but especially into the wrecked
homes, and gave to many poor people that sympathy
which helps to bear trials. The king with his little
yachting cap looked like a naval officer, and the
queen, dressed in deep black, like the Sister of
Charity that she really is. Every one was impressed
with her simplicity and tender kindness.
Students of seismology found interesting material
for study in the earthquakes of 1893. The nine sub-
marine cables converging in Zante pass over known
seismic centres. In all the serious shocks which the
island has sustained since they were laid, the cables
in the path of the earthquake have been broken. In
the great convulsion of the 27th of August, 1886,
which preceded that qf Charleston, six miles of the
cable were buried by a landslide on the bottom of the
sea, which increased the depth from seven hundred
to nine hundred fathoms. The cable was never re-
covered, and another one was laid. A shock having
precisely the same characteristics, without the same
strength, occurred in 1873, and parted the cable six
miles away from Zante. In the catastrophe I have
described the cable was not affected.
Zante is composed of rock surrounded on the
southeast and northwest by a bank of yellow mud,
gradually shelving into forty or fifty fathoms two