to CYPRUS, iTt 
fame appearance as the town and fortrefs do, a very 
mean-looking perfon, without any token of his be- 
ing a commanding officer, which the Turks never 
fail (hewing, at lead by a number of fervants which 
they keep about them, if they have any money ; 
but this, the pod of a Governor of Famaguda will 
not admit of. A Turkifh officer mud always pay 
himfelf, i. e. he mud take, right or wrong, as much, 
and often more than he wants, from thofe under his 
command; but this Governor had only 2 or 300 
good for nothing foldiers under him, and from thent 
little was to be got. The fort has not been repaired 
fince the Turks took it from the Venetians, and is 
therefore ruinous. Here were about 200 pieces of 
cannon, which were taken with the fort, but fcarcely 
one of them is fit for ufe. The garrifon confided of 
about 300 men, of thofe called Levanti : thefe are 
foldiers who ferve in the fleet, and are the word 
men in the Porte’s fervice. The harbour for the 
gallies, which is well fituated, and defended by the 
fort, was entirely ruined. I have never feen fuch 
quantities of Aloe vera, as I faw on the ramparts of 
this fort. We went from the fort to fee the church 
of St. Sophia, which is ufed by the Turks for a 
Mofque. It is of Gothic archite&ure, large, and 
Was once handfome. It received, fortie years ago, 
confiderable damages by an earthquake ; and the 
Turks, who are the mod ignorant archite&s in the 
World, have in a miferable manner repaired it. The 
tombs, monuments, and chapels, erefted by the 
Chridians, w r ere entirely demolifhed : I could only 
fee fome epitaphs on the pavement in the church, 
fome in Latin, with old Gothic letters, others in 
modern Greek ; and even of thefe I could only fee 
thofe neared the threlhold, which a Chridian, ac- 
eording to the fuperftitious cuflom of the Turks, 
mud 
