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departure from khania.
[chap.
fortress and bay of sudha.
CHAPTER III.
from khania to pal aeok astro n near the bay of sudha.
effects of venetian misgovernment. cretan and molos-
sian dogs. cretan character.
February 16, 1834.
We started from Khaniii about noon, and tra-
versed the plain by which the city is surrounded, and
the greater part of which, in the direction of Sudha,
was stript of its olives when Ibrahim-pasha landed here
with his troops, in January 1825, on his way from Egypt
to the Morea1. Half a mile before we arrive at the
Salt-pans, which have changed their Italian name Saline
1 The swamp near Sudha (ij Souoa, on the etymology of which word see
below, p. 189.) was selected for the encampment of the troops, and, in con-
sequence, about one fifth of them died in the island. Ibrahim sailed for the
More'a on the 19th February 1825 : see a letter written at Khania, and pub-
lished in a contemporary Journal, and Madden, Travels in Turkey, Egypt,
&c. Vol. i. p. 174-f).
departure from khania.
[chap.
fortress and bay of sudha.
CHAPTER III.
from khania to pal aeok astro n near the bay of sudha.
effects of venetian misgovernment. cretan and molos-
sian dogs. cretan character.
February 16, 1834.
We started from Khaniii about noon, and tra-
versed the plain by which the city is surrounded, and
the greater part of which, in the direction of Sudha,
was stript of its olives when Ibrahim-pasha landed here
with his troops, in January 1825, on his way from Egypt
to the Morea1. Half a mile before we arrive at the
Salt-pans, which have changed their Italian name Saline
1 The swamp near Sudha (ij Souoa, on the etymology of which word see
below, p. 189.) was selected for the encampment of the troops, and, in con-
sequence, about one fifth of them died in the island. Ibrahim sailed for the
More'a on the 19th February 1825 : see a letter written at Khania, and pub-
lished in a contemporary Journal, and Madden, Travels in Turkey, Egypt,
&c. Vol. i. p. 174-f).