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Photo by Theodore Leslie Shear 

 THE TOWER OL ST. NICHOLAS, AT RHODES, GUARDING THE) ENTRANCE TO THE INNER 



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This fort was built by the Knights of Rhodes in 1464, and, though frequently made the 

 principal object of attack, it was never captured. One attack was frustrated by the bravery 

 of an English sailor named Rodgers, who, observing that a bridge of boats was about to be 

 thrown across from the opposite mole by a cable attached to an anchor fixed under the 

 tower, dived into the sea, cut the rope, and saved the fortress. 



A custom seems to prevail among the 

 inhabitants of Asia Minor to use the 

 tombstones from dilapidated Turkish 

 cemeteries for the purpose of building 

 walls along the roadside. It creates a 

 kind of queer impression when riding 

 along some of these lanes to be suddenly 

 confronted by a number of slabs which 

 bear inscriptions that probably read 

 something like this : "Sacred to the mem- 

 ory of John Jones." When such a Turk- 

 ish village is located in the vicinity of 

 some ancient necropolis, it may be de- 

 pended upon that there is a plentiful 

 intermingling of Turkish and Greek epi- 

 taphs. While the Moslem population ap- 

 parently cling with tenacity to the idea 

 of the perpetuation of their burial places, 

 there seems to be no particular reverence 

 attached to the tombs themselves. 



IONIAN CIVILIZATION S PULSE 



While rocking in a ship upon the swell 

 between the mainland of Asia Minor and 

 Samos, with the broad harbor of ancient 

 Ephesus only a few miles away to the 

 left, the influence of the past steals 

 slowly over one, and soon there comes 

 the mood for profound reflection. 



It is difficult to realize that among 

 these barren and denuded hills, which 

 skirt the coast of both mainland and 

 islands, there once throbbed the pulse of 

 Ionian civilization ; that these shores were 

 graced with picturesque and happy cities, 

 where hardy men and beautiful women 

 lived content among unsurpassed natural 

 environments and all the accomplish- 

 ments known to any race; that this soil, 

 these seas, were the recipients of the seed 

 which developed into the base upon 



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