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XXXIV.] ALIDHAKEs's TOWER AT PROSNERO.
169
I leave 'Ipo at a few minutes before nine: in three
quarters of an hour I cross the river which flows from
the Sfakian mountains and falls into the sea below
Armyrd: its stream is rapid, and its water is here
deliciously cold. At ten o'clock we arrive at the village
of Prdsnero, the last before the Sfakian frontier.
At Prdsnero is seen the ruined pvrgo, or tower of
Alidhak es, a Mohammedan who defended himself for
some time, from within his little castle, against the
Christian insurgents, at the outbreaking of the Greek
revolution. When the Sfakians first arose, a division
of about two hundred and fifty of them marched down
to attack this tower. The father of Alidhakes had been
killed by the Sfaki ans in the war which took place in
Crete seventy years ago, (after the attempt of Russia on
the Morea,) and Alidhakes was now prepared to make a
vigorous resistance, having with him, within the tower,
about eighty picked men. Although the Sfakians trans-
ported some old cannon, which they found in the fort at
Armyrd, to this spot, they did not succeed in carrying
the pyrgo; and, after losing some time in the attempt,
at last left a smaller party to blockade it. When after-
wards abandoned, it was dismantled by the Christian
insurgents.
The ascent becomes steeper after leaving Prdsnero :
at half-past ten I stop and repose for twenty minutes
under the shade of a tree. At a quarter past eleven
we reach a small plain, called Krapi, where the Rlnza
or Rhizoma ends: here therefore we enter the higher
ranges which are called Sfakia. There are many ilexes25
and some wild-pear-trees26 on this little plain of Krapi.
On leaving the plain we begin to enter the gorge
or pass which is to conduct us to Askyfo. The moun-
BKeivovs tovs to7tovs iropeuovTai. (usaVTai? Kai 01 TrpotKvvriTal iropevovTat
aird 'lepovcraXi'ip. ems eKeivov tov tottov ISelv to Baiifia-eSoKipatrav
ot EWtji/cs ttot'c dird too vvv eiKOffl 6tij irpoTepov irolijGUL to 7rda-)^a
Kara tov veov dpSfiov, aXV ovSap.Oi's e£?j'pxe'r0 Ta' veKpd kutu tov vcov
dpitifiov, Sec. &c. &c.
2S Tlpivot. 26 'A-xXddat?.
169
I leave 'Ipo at a few minutes before nine: in three
quarters of an hour I cross the river which flows from
the Sfakian mountains and falls into the sea below
Armyrd: its stream is rapid, and its water is here
deliciously cold. At ten o'clock we arrive at the village
of Prdsnero, the last before the Sfakian frontier.
At Prdsnero is seen the ruined pvrgo, or tower of
Alidhak es, a Mohammedan who defended himself for
some time, from within his little castle, against the
Christian insurgents, at the outbreaking of the Greek
revolution. When the Sfakians first arose, a division
of about two hundred and fifty of them marched down
to attack this tower. The father of Alidhakes had been
killed by the Sfaki ans in the war which took place in
Crete seventy years ago, (after the attempt of Russia on
the Morea,) and Alidhakes was now prepared to make a
vigorous resistance, having with him, within the tower,
about eighty picked men. Although the Sfakians trans-
ported some old cannon, which they found in the fort at
Armyrd, to this spot, they did not succeed in carrying
the pyrgo; and, after losing some time in the attempt,
at last left a smaller party to blockade it. When after-
wards abandoned, it was dismantled by the Christian
insurgents.
The ascent becomes steeper after leaving Prdsnero :
at half-past ten I stop and repose for twenty minutes
under the shade of a tree. At a quarter past eleven
we reach a small plain, called Krapi, where the Rlnza
or Rhizoma ends: here therefore we enter the higher
ranges which are called Sfakia. There are many ilexes25
and some wild-pear-trees26 on this little plain of Krapi.
On leaving the plain we begin to enter the gorge
or pass which is to conduct us to Askyfo. The moun-
BKeivovs tovs to7tovs iropeuovTai. (usaVTai? Kai 01 TrpotKvvriTal iropevovTat
aird 'lepovcraXi'ip. ems eKeivov tov tottov ISelv to Baiifia-eSoKipatrav
ot EWtji/cs ttot'c dird too vvv eiKOffl 6tij irpoTepov irolijGUL to 7rda-)^a
Kara tov veov dpSfiov, aXV ovSap.Oi's e£?j'pxe'r0 Ta' veKpd kutu tov vcov
dpitifiov, Sec. &c. &c.
2S Tlpivot. 26 'A-xXddat?.