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EFFECTS OF THE WAR.
[chap.
Episkope now consists of about sixty dwellings : it
contained near three hundred at the outbreaking of the
revolution, and, as in every other village, the heaps of
ruined houses remain as the flames left them, and pre-
sent a picture of desolation, which, in a country of such
fertility and possessing such undeveloped resources, is
quite lamentable. On entering the village I was struck
with its devastated and lonely aspect; and on my making
an observation on the subject to an inhabitant, he re-
plied that " the Christians had burnt all the houses
an answer which shewed that he was a Mohammedan,
as I learnt that most of his fellow-villagers are. I found
half a dozen of them in the coffeehouse of the village,
smoking their pipes; the ordinary occupation of fol-
lowers of the Prophet. I had no little difficulty in
obtaining a lodging, although at last I met with very
tolerable accommodation in the house of a Christian.
Captain Manias came to me in the evening, and told me
that he had found mules, and should be ready, early in
the morning, to start for the antiquities, which as I
learn from him, are to be seen at Pdlis, a large village
on the northern slopes of the Sfakian hills, and a little
to the south of our present restingplace.
EFFECTS OF THE WAR.
[chap.
Episkope now consists of about sixty dwellings : it
contained near three hundred at the outbreaking of the
revolution, and, as in every other village, the heaps of
ruined houses remain as the flames left them, and pre-
sent a picture of desolation, which, in a country of such
fertility and possessing such undeveloped resources, is
quite lamentable. On entering the village I was struck
with its devastated and lonely aspect; and on my making
an observation on the subject to an inhabitant, he re-
plied that " the Christians had burnt all the houses
an answer which shewed that he was a Mohammedan,
as I learnt that most of his fellow-villagers are. I found
half a dozen of them in the coffeehouse of the village,
smoking their pipes; the ordinary occupation of fol-
lowers of the Prophet. I had no little difficulty in
obtaining a lodging, although at last I met with very
tolerable accommodation in the house of a Christian.
Captain Manias came to me in the evening, and told me
that he had found mules, and should be ready, early in
the morning, to start for the antiquities, which as I
learn from him, are to be seen at Pdlis, a large village
on the northern slopes of the Sfakian hills, and a little
to the south of our present restingplace.