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departure from khania.
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CHAPTER XXII.
DEPARTURE FROM KHANIA. PLATANIA PROBABLY THE SITE OF
PERGAMOS. RIVER IARDANOS. SUPPOSED SITE OF CVDONIA AT
IERAMI. ARRIVAL AT THE MONASTERY OF GONIA. MONASTIC
INSTITUTIONS. RELIGIOUS PAINTINGS OF THE GREEKS. SITE OF
DICTYNNAEON.
April 21.
I left Khania a little before twelve o'clock, and
had scarcely passed the gate of the city before I heard
the noon salute fired by the guns of the fortress, in
honour of the lesser Bairam1, which commenced yester-
' I have called this the lesser Bairam in conformity with the common
Practice both of the people in the country and of European writers who have
spoken of the Mohammedan feasts, although no doubt, as has been observed
by Reland, de religione Mohammedica, p. 109. ed. alt. Traj. ad Rhen. 1717.
(where he corrects D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, Art. Beiram,) and
Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, §. 7- p. 200.) the feast succeeding the Ramazan
's properly the lesser Bairam, and this is the greater. No one who has wit-
nessed the celebration of the Ramazan and its Bairam, the Lent and Easter
of the Mohammedans, can wonder that the common people should have learnt
lo consider that Bairam as the more important of the two.
departure from khania.
21
CHAPTER XXII.
DEPARTURE FROM KHANIA. PLATANIA PROBABLY THE SITE OF
PERGAMOS. RIVER IARDANOS. SUPPOSED SITE OF CVDONIA AT
IERAMI. ARRIVAL AT THE MONASTERY OF GONIA. MONASTIC
INSTITUTIONS. RELIGIOUS PAINTINGS OF THE GREEKS. SITE OF
DICTYNNAEON.
April 21.
I left Khania a little before twelve o'clock, and
had scarcely passed the gate of the city before I heard
the noon salute fired by the guns of the fortress, in
honour of the lesser Bairam1, which commenced yester-
' I have called this the lesser Bairam in conformity with the common
Practice both of the people in the country and of European writers who have
spoken of the Mohammedan feasts, although no doubt, as has been observed
by Reland, de religione Mohammedica, p. 109. ed. alt. Traj. ad Rhen. 1717.
(where he corrects D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, Art. Beiram,) and
Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, §. 7- p. 200.) the feast succeeding the Ramazan
's properly the lesser Bairam, and this is the greater. No one who has wit-
nessed the celebration of the Ramazan and its Bairam, the Lent and Easter
of the Mohammedans, can wonder that the common people should have learnt
lo consider that Bairam as the more important of the two.