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98 night's lodging at haghio kyeko. [chap.

RHODHOVANf AND THE SITE OF ELYROS.

CHAPTER XXVII.

WALK TO SUIA. VULTURES, EAGLES, FALCONS, AND THE COCK OF
THE WOODS IN CRETE. KRUSTOGHERAKO. AFRICAN HOUSE-
HOLD SLAVES. VILLAGE OF RHODHOVANI. SITE AND REMAINS
OF ELYROS. THALETAS. HONEY OF RHODHOVANI. COINS OF
ELYROS. RIDE TO TEMENIA.

April 28.

After a night spent without obtaining much sleep,
I found, at day-break, that I was covered with traces
of the ravages committed on me by the light troops,
which, in this part of the world, invariably take up
their quarters in unfrequented buildings, even more
than in inhabited ones; and whose attacks had been
kept up, with the most annoying perseverance, through-
out the night. I was still so weak and unwell that I
hardly knew what course to adopt, when I learnt that
the direct road to Suia, about three miles further to
 
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