Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 2) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

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HORNS OF THE CRETAN WILD-GOAT.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

HAGHIA RUMELI TO SAMARIA. DIFFICULTY OF PASSING, EVEN WITH
A MULE, ALONG THE GLEN. STRIKING PASS CALLED "THE GATES."
KEFALOVRYSIS. A SITE CALLED "THE REFUGE OF THE HELLENES."
CAENO. LOVES OF APOLLO AND ACACALLIS. CYPRESSES IN THE
GLEN OF HAGHIA RUMELI. THE CRETAN AGRIMI IS THE WILD-
GOAT, AND NOT THE BOUQUETIN OR IBEX. DEPARTURE FROM
SAMARIA.

May 7, continued.

At half-past eight I left this sequestered village,
intending to explore the inner recesses of the glen as far
as Samaria. The path in some parts is so narrow,
where it winds round the abrupt precipices, that no horse
would be able to pass along it. At one spot it was
necessary to take off the saddle from the mule on which
I was mounted, during the greater part of the way, in
order to avoid the likelihood of precipitating the animal
into the river below.

In the first half hour after leaving Haghia Rumeli,
I crossed the river five or six times, and then arrived