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procured some in a square wooden ladle, exactly similar to those used by the Turcomans, in Asia 

 Minor. I did not go down to look at the Japanese junks, but, with some others, followed the 

 course of the creek. Two of the police officers — as we took them to be — stuck to us, and when- 

 ever we paused motioned to us to take the road which would have led us back to the beach. 



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Lew Cliew Peasant. 



For this very reason I was desirous of proceeding further. All of the town which we had seen 

 was completely clo.sed, the shops .shut, and the stalls of vendors of small wares, in the streets, 

 deserted with such haste, in some instances, that the articles remained exposed. We walked for 

 about half a mile up the creek, and finally reached another road which appeared to be one of the 

 principal thoroughfares. The appearance of the interior of the island was exceedingly beautiful. 

 The land rose in bold hills, crowned witli groves, of a variety of pine which was new to me, 

 resembling the cedar of Lebanon in its physiognomy. The sides of the hills were covered with 

 fields of brilliant green, spotted, here and there, by the white-washed sepidchres of former gene- 



