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paved or pitched road still exists, and is, in many places,
supported by a wall on our left. To have passed one
of these old Venetian roads is always a satisfaction to
the traveller who values either his horse's knees or his
own neck. Almost immediately after leaving the moun-
tain we crossed the winter-stream Armelidhes, and, fol-
lowing the shore for about half a mile, arrived at a little
hut dignified by the name of Kaenurio-khani. At the
end of another half mile we passed the village of Gurnes
on our right, and crossed a river which flows by a place
called Andpolis, at some distance up in the hills.
Shortly after crossing this river we turned off' to the
right, and soon began to see marks of cultivation, and
indications of our approach to a more considerable vil-
lage than we had passed this morning, in the corn-fields,
olive-trees, and vineyards, which we observed. In less
than half an hour we arrived at Guves, a village of
between forty and fifty houses, chiefly inhabited by
Christians. There are many carob-trees in the neigh-
bourhood of the place.
I found here a person who, in answer to my inquiries,
told me that there is a cave near the sea, and close by
the river Aposelemi. I was delighted at the news, for
I felt satisfied that I had not as yet seen any traces
of Amnisos in my researches between this place and
Megalo-Kastron, and when I left Guves it was with
every hope that I should find Ilithyia's cave, and the
place where Ulysses landed, when
A violent wind
Had driven him from Malea, while he sought
The shores of Troy, to Crete. The storm his hark
Bore into the Amnisos, for the cave
Of Ilithyia known : a dangerous port:
With difficulty did he 'scape the gales29.
29 Odyssey, xix. 186.
Kat yap tod Kp?)Ti;i'oe KaTjjyayev is dvepiOLo,
le/xeuov Tpo'uivSe, TrapairXay^aaa MaXeiiav'
aTTjcre S' ev 'Ap-vicrw, odi te a"7re'os Et\ei0i/n;s,
iv Xijxeaiv yaXeiroivi' /xoyis 6' uirdXv^ev aeAAas.
GUVES AND CAROB-TItEES.
265
paved or pitched road still exists, and is, in many places,
supported by a wall on our left. To have passed one
of these old Venetian roads is always a satisfaction to
the traveller who values either his horse's knees or his
own neck. Almost immediately after leaving the moun-
tain we crossed the winter-stream Armelidhes, and, fol-
lowing the shore for about half a mile, arrived at a little
hut dignified by the name of Kaenurio-khani. At the
end of another half mile we passed the village of Gurnes
on our right, and crossed a river which flows by a place
called Andpolis, at some distance up in the hills.
Shortly after crossing this river we turned off' to the
right, and soon began to see marks of cultivation, and
indications of our approach to a more considerable vil-
lage than we had passed this morning, in the corn-fields,
olive-trees, and vineyards, which we observed. In less
than half an hour we arrived at Guves, a village of
between forty and fifty houses, chiefly inhabited by
Christians. There are many carob-trees in the neigh-
bourhood of the place.
I found here a person who, in answer to my inquiries,
told me that there is a cave near the sea, and close by
the river Aposelemi. I was delighted at the news, for
I felt satisfied that I had not as yet seen any traces
of Amnisos in my researches between this place and
Megalo-Kastron, and when I left Guves it was with
every hope that I should find Ilithyia's cave, and the
place where Ulysses landed, when
A violent wind
Had driven him from Malea, while he sought
The shores of Troy, to Crete. The storm his hark
Bore into the Amnisos, for the cave
Of Ilithyia known : a dangerous port:
With difficulty did he 'scape the gales29.
29 Odyssey, xix. 186.
Kat yap tod Kp?)Ti;i'oe KaTjjyayev is dvepiOLo,
le/xeuov Tpo'uivSe, TrapairXay^aaa MaXeiiav'
aTTjcre S' ev 'Ap-vicrw, odi te a"7re'os Et\ei0i/n;s,
iv Xijxeaiv yaXeiroivi' /xoyis 6' uirdXv^ev aeAAas.