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xxxiv.]
THE PASCHAL LAMB.
161
Dhrakona contains about thirty-eight houses: all
its inhabitants are Christians, as is the case with nearly
every village of the Rhiza. I remain here about half
an hour. Soon after eleven o'clock we have before us
Kendros, Mount Ida, the hills beyond the plain of
Mylopdtamo, and the bay of Rhithymnos. Kendros
now retains a mere sprinkling of snow, and the High
Mountain himself, Pselorites, as Ida is emphatically
called by the modern Cretans, although for at least
a thousand feet from his highest peak he had on a thick
covering of snow only a fortnight ago, now shows strips
of his rocky surface almost to his very summit. I pass
Kampi, the last village in the district of Khania, at
half past eleven. Its Christian population is assembled
at the church. Every one, of both sexes, is dressed
in his or her gayest apparel. All are gladly bidding-
adieu to the last day of their Lent. I have seen many
lambs this morning: some already slaughtered for to-
morrow's feast: others tethered and destined to live
only a few hours.
Pleased to the last each crops his flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his Wood.
We are reminded of the Jewish paschal lamb, both by
the Lampre or Easter-Sunday of the Greeks, and by
the Kurban-bairam or Feast of Sacrifice of the Moham-
niedans. Every true believer, whose means enable him
to incur such an expense, is expected to kill a sheep on
that occasion: its flesh, however, is not consumed in
merry-making, but is, I am told, ordinarily distributed
among the poor. As I noticed this morning the tethered
lambs, on passing the cottages of Christians, so, for a
few days before the Kurban-bairam1, I saw fine fat
sheep tied up in half the shops of the bazar of Khania.
At a few minutes after one I arrive at Rhamne,
and obtain some refreshment in the house of my former
host8.
1 See above, p. 21.
- Sec Vol. l. p. 65.
THE PASCHAL LAMB.
161
Dhrakona contains about thirty-eight houses: all
its inhabitants are Christians, as is the case with nearly
every village of the Rhiza. I remain here about half
an hour. Soon after eleven o'clock we have before us
Kendros, Mount Ida, the hills beyond the plain of
Mylopdtamo, and the bay of Rhithymnos. Kendros
now retains a mere sprinkling of snow, and the High
Mountain himself, Pselorites, as Ida is emphatically
called by the modern Cretans, although for at least
a thousand feet from his highest peak he had on a thick
covering of snow only a fortnight ago, now shows strips
of his rocky surface almost to his very summit. I pass
Kampi, the last village in the district of Khania, at
half past eleven. Its Christian population is assembled
at the church. Every one, of both sexes, is dressed
in his or her gayest apparel. All are gladly bidding-
adieu to the last day of their Lent. I have seen many
lambs this morning: some already slaughtered for to-
morrow's feast: others tethered and destined to live
only a few hours.
Pleased to the last each crops his flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his Wood.
We are reminded of the Jewish paschal lamb, both by
the Lampre or Easter-Sunday of the Greeks, and by
the Kurban-bairam or Feast of Sacrifice of the Moham-
niedans. Every true believer, whose means enable him
to incur such an expense, is expected to kill a sheep on
that occasion: its flesh, however, is not consumed in
merry-making, but is, I am told, ordinarily distributed
among the poor. As I noticed this morning the tethered
lambs, on passing the cottages of Christians, so, for a
few days before the Kurban-bairam1, I saw fine fat
sheep tied up in half the shops of the bazar of Khania.
At a few minutes after one I arrive at Rhamne,
and obtain some refreshment in the house of my former
host8.
1 See above, p. 21.
- Sec Vol. l. p. 65.