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THE RIVER APOSELEMI.
267
tion by poets, as connected with the Ilithyian worship,
may have given it a sufficient celebrity to have rendered
his expression intelligible to the majority of his readers37.
The Panopolitan Poet, when describing the residence of
the Cnossian Asterios, on the banks of the Phasis, speaks
of the Cretan stream Amnisos, which the hero had left
behind him in his native land3s.
The river Aposelemi is only about a mile from
Guves. Before we reached this stream, we passed on
our left the church of Haghios Ghedrghios, near which
there used to be several houses. They are now in ruins,
as is the church, to which however the Papas of Guves
comes and officiates annually on April 23d (O.S.), the
day of its patron Saint. Just below the church, we see
on the shore the wreck of an Egyptian corvette. She got
ashore here and was lost in December last: she brought
Mehmet-Alfs final orders, in consequence of which
more than thirty Cretans were executed immediately
after, without even the semblance of justice or law.
It is a pity that the despatches were not lost as well
as the vessel. A guard of thirty Arab soldiers is sta-
tioned on the shore to prevent any one from stealing
from the wreck. One would have supposed that the
government might long ago have removed everv thing
capable of being saved, and thus have dispensed with
continuing their guard.
We now cross a bridge over the Aposelemi, the
rapid stream which flows from the mountains of Las-
sithi, and carries off all the waters which pass through
the great katavothra of the Lassithian plain. I shall
have to speak of it again on visiting Avdhu and Las-
sithi. After descending from the mountains, it flows
through a rich and pleasant vallev, where, if it were
37 See JBerxhardy, on Dionys. p. 6oo.
38 Nonnus, xiii. 250.
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THE RIVER APOSELEMI.
267
tion by poets, as connected with the Ilithyian worship,
may have given it a sufficient celebrity to have rendered
his expression intelligible to the majority of his readers37.
The Panopolitan Poet, when describing the residence of
the Cnossian Asterios, on the banks of the Phasis, speaks
of the Cretan stream Amnisos, which the hero had left
behind him in his native land3s.
The river Aposelemi is only about a mile from
Guves. Before we reached this stream, we passed on
our left the church of Haghios Ghedrghios, near which
there used to be several houses. They are now in ruins,
as is the church, to which however the Papas of Guves
comes and officiates annually on April 23d (O.S.), the
day of its patron Saint. Just below the church, we see
on the shore the wreck of an Egyptian corvette. She got
ashore here and was lost in December last: she brought
Mehmet-Alfs final orders, in consequence of which
more than thirty Cretans were executed immediately
after, without even the semblance of justice or law.
It is a pity that the despatches were not lost as well
as the vessel. A guard of thirty Arab soldiers is sta-
tioned on the shore to prevent any one from stealing
from the wreck. One would have supposed that the
government might long ago have removed everv thing
capable of being saved, and thus have dispensed with
continuing their guard.
We now cross a bridge over the Aposelemi, the
rapid stream which flows from the mountains of Las-
sithi, and carries off all the waters which pass through
the great katavothra of the Lassithian plain. I shall
have to speak of it again on visiting Avdhu and Las-
sithi. After descending from the mountains, it flows
through a rich and pleasant vallev, where, if it were
37 See JBerxhardy, on Dionys. p. 6oo.
38 Nonnus, xiii. 250.
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