90 TRAVELS IN UPPER 



to render little susceptible of the gentler affections 

 of the soul, you met with beings sensible and com- 

 passionate, 



I had occasion to return twice afterwards to an- 

 cient Crete : the observations which I made there, 

 will naturally find their place in my Travels through 

 Greece, which will immediately follow the present 

 publication. On the other hand, the pages of my 

 journal, which contained the passage from the bay 

 to Suda to Alexandria, are lost ; but I recollect 

 perfectly, that they contained no detail of much 

 importance, We made a short stop at Paleo- 

 Castro, on cape Solomon, the easternmost point 

 of the isle of Candia. This is a region destitute of 

 every species of habitation, except the huts of 

 shepherds. The sight of a ship of war, accom- 

 panied by a felucca, made us pass, in the imagi^ 

 nation of those harmless swains, for a Maltese 

 armament ; they took to flight with their flocks 

 into the interior of the island, and abandoned to 

 us a coast which our very appearance had in an 

 instant converted into a desert. It did not require 

 much time to waft us to Alexandria, and a few 

 days were sufficient to convey us to the low an$ 

 gandy shores of Egypt. 



