Report on the Cattle Disease in the Island of Ci/prus. 459 
supposed to be under the influence of the evil eye, an influence 
which he was supposed to be able to dispel. On these occa- 
sions he had left his bullock cart standing at the gate, of the 
khan. 
My attention was at once directed to the above-named 
persons. 
The yoke of oxen belonging to Messrs. Henry S. King and 
Co., which were standing in the stable of Mr. McLaughlan, 
died in December 1879, and were buried in the yard. 
On December 22nd, at Livadia, Hadji Toulli, who owned 
sixteen animals, had lost two, and had nine ill ; while three 
other animals, belonging to the same village, which had come 
in contact with those of Hadji Toulli, were also sick. 
On the same date, at Ormidia, a small village in the Fama- 
gusta district, about three hours from Larnaca, the two animals 
belonging to Adam Simeon had died, as had also one belonging 
to his brother, while several others in the same village were ill. 
With a view to arresting the progress of the disease, the 
infected villages weie at once placed in quarantine, and no 
animals were allowed either to enter or leave them. Orders 
were despatched from Nicosia, to the authorities all over the 
island, to keep a strict watch for the outbreak or existence of 
any unusual kind of malady among cattle, and in the event 
of the disease making its appearance they were to give imme- 
diate notice of the same to the Chief Secretary to Government. 
The result of these measures was that diseases among cattle 
were reported as existing in a great many villages in different 
parts of the island. His Excellency the High Commissioner 
was then pleased to give the orders to visit and inspect all the 
places where cattle-plague was supposed to have broken out ; 
and Messrs. Commeline and Parsons, of the Forest Department, 
were appointed to assist me in this task. 
I personally inspected almost the whole island, and found 
that the reports of the disease having shown itself in so many 
different places were the result of panic, the peasantry imagining 
that every animal that died or fell ill had caught the plague. 
Many animals had died, and many others were suffering from 
the effects of the exceptionally severe winter, and the scarcity of 
proper food, caused by the bad harvests of the two previous 
years. 
At this time the disease only existed at Nisso and Palaeoro- 
tissa, in the Nicosia district ; at Tricomo and Ormidia, in the 
Famagusta district ; at Aya Phylaxis, in the Limassol district ; 
and at Larnaca and Livadia, in the Larnaca district. 
The disease is believed to have been brought to Nisso, a 
small village belonging to Mr. Richard Mattei, on January 1st, 
