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periwinkles,* by way of change of diet, having 

 before lived upon bread and halvah, — no fish, oil, 

 or olives, the usual food of Greeks during their 

 many Lents, being procurable in this country. 

 Now the periwinkles were all consumed, only a 

 few withered bunches of samphire remained, and 

 the bread was bad : — no wonder that the savoury 

 scent of lamb- stew undermined the piety of our 

 hungry surigees ! After pouring forth a loud la- 

 mentation over the severity of his church in im- 

 posing such hard fasts, Nicolo, the more coura- 

 geous of the two, requested a share, and Giorgio, 

 though the son of a priest, and the most timid of 

 youths, followed his example. After dinner they 

 exhibited no symptoms of remorse. 



April 14th. — From Atrasan we proceeded to 

 Deliktash. Our course lay northwards until we 

 had crossed some low undulating ground sepa- 

 rating the river of Atrasan from the Deliktash 

 river, when we entered a deep and rocky gorge 

 bounded by bold precipices. Following the 

 stream through it, we arrived at tombs in the 

 hill-side. These, at a distance, had the ap- 



* Trochus articulatus and allied species. Our English 

 periwinkle (Littorina littorea) does not range to the eastern 

 Mediterranean. 



