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and the Turks who were endeavouring to prevent 

 them. 



Milo is intensely volcanic. At a place a quarter 

 of a mile from Adamas I was shown a spot where, 

 if the sulphurous soil is disturbed with a stick, a 

 degree of heat insupportable to the hand is at once 

 reached. As a resulting consequence of its nature 

 the island is rich in minerals. Manganese, barytes, 

 silver, sulphur, and several other mines are worked. 

 I also visited the mediaeval town. The place is 

 buried in olive - trees. It has been abandoned as 

 unhealthy. The usual result of irrigation and 

 absence of sanitation combined is to make Levan- 

 tine towns unhealthy. They then become known 

 as feverish, and are abandoned. For instance, in 

 Western Cyprus there are no less than three towns 

 of Papho — Paleapapho, Neopapho (or Baffo), and 

 Ktima. The first is only a few ruins, the second 

 the huts of a few fever-stricken peasants standing 

 in gardens, the third the modern town. 



The next day proved in every way suitable for 

 our departure, but Eastern dilatoriness dela3^ed it 

 till noon. The first thing we did was to call at a 

 hamlet near the mouth of the harbour, where Crusoe 

 embarked the rest of his crew, consisting of his 

 three sons and their impedimenta, which to my 

 disgust included two long-barrelled guns. I shook 

 my head, but it was hopeless to make myself 

 understood, and I desisted in despair. After this 

 the wind dropped, and it was long after dark 

 when our craft was safely beached at Antimilo. 



I must now try to describe this island — no easy 

 task. It consists, roughly speaking, of a long 

 ridge, but this is broken into saddles and peaks, 



