KIDROS — GREEK HOSPITALITY. 187 



against the effects of the sun's rays to be good 

 sweet ohve-oil. 



Kidros is a small, but remarkably neat and 

 clean, village, the inhabitants of which are entirely 

 Greek. At first we found great difficulty in ob- 

 taining a place to lay our heads, the inhabitants 

 all refusing to give us shelter for the night ; but our 

 servant being a Greek, and having assured them 

 that we were not Turks, but Christians like them- 

 selves, we found ourselves in a short time very 

 comfortably lodged in a capital room, with a good 

 fire, the worthy lady of the house insisting on 

 lending us beds and pillows, comforts to which we 

 had for some time been utter strangers. She 

 particularly told us that at first they did not know 

 we were Christians, or they would not have he- 

 sitated an instant about admitting us. " We 

 should not have been afraid of you had we known 

 who you were," said she; " you are Christians, 

 and friends; but we were cautious about taking 

 you in at first, fearing you might be Turks, who 

 come to our village, take forcible possession of 

 our houses, turn us out into the streets, eat all our 

 food, kill our poultry, seize upon every thing be- 

 longing to us, and then pay us for what they have 



