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the time we had been in the village, had taken 

 no part in the rejoicings. On our ride we 

 repassed the procession, which varied only in one 

 respect. The goat leader in order to ease himself 

 of a troublesome task and chat with his com- 

 panions, had tied the goat to the ass, much to 

 the ill-humour of both animals. Donkey occa- 

 sionally not going slow enough for Billy, Billy 

 drew back and applied his propellers with no 

 little force to Donkey's hind quarters, on which 

 Donkey would take to a canter, and Billy not 

 relishing such an acceleration of speed, would 

 hold back with all his might. 



Everywhere the anemones were in beautiful 

 flower. It is worthy of notice, that on the 

 tertiary they were mostly red, and on the scaglia 

 oftenest blue or purple. At sunset we joined 

 our friends at Xanthus, where we found that 

 many new bas reliefs and fragments of statues 

 had been discovered since our last visit. Among- 

 the most interesting were a number of repre- 

 sentations of animals of a somewhat Oriental 

 character, especially the horses, which differed 

 from those on the undoubted Greek sculptures 

 in having much slenderer necks, longer bodies, 

 longer and slimmer legs, topknots, and long 



