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in classical story, Cassandra, Longos, and Athos, 

 the last of which bears the renowned monastery. 

 Kavaia In the morning we came to Kavala, the most 



picturesque and impressive of iEgean cities, built 

 largely on a bold headland, partly on a low isthmus 

 which connects with the bordering hills, a long, curv- 

 ing barren ridge. Kavala possesses an excellent harbor, 

 the only natural outlet for Eastern Bulgaria (" East 

 Rumelia") and Bulgarian Thrace. On the hill above 

 stood in ancient times the town of Philippi, where 

 Brutus and Cassius were defeated by Octavianus and 

 Mark Antony. But how, I ask you, did those old 

 warriors move their armies all the way from Rome 

 with no adequate means of transportation and almost 

 no roads, through unfriendly and scantily populated 

 lands ? 

 Its Roman A supctb Romau aqueduct still carries water high 

 aqueduct abovc the isthmus to the center of town on the 

 headland. I marveled again that the ancients in all 

 their experiments with water never hit on the idea of 

 pipe lines which would follow surface configuration, 

 instead of their open stone aqueducts with an even 

 slope from mountain spring to city fountain. 

 A native I^ the market place paraded a "perfectly good" 

 exquisite Gteck daudy, a type quite new to us. He wore the 

 complete national holiday costume, all pure white, 

 with short, well-starched, boufant skirts, and a smile 

 of satisfaction which deepened when Holman asked 

 the privilege of taking his picture. 



On the boat a young man from Chicago who had 

 been buying tobacco for an American firm had told me 

 some ghastly stories of atrocities committed in Kavala 

 by Bulgarian comatadji on Turkish neighbors. These 

 were verified by the captain, who, referring to the 



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