86 ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP, every article of canvas, &c. that could be 
collected. 
The gale continuing from the same quarter, 
and with the force of a hurricane, we were 
detained here during this and the following day. 
It is surprising for what a length of time, and how 
often, the north-west rages in the Archipelago. 
It prevails, almost unceasingly, through the 
greater part of the year. After sun-set, there is 
generally a calm, which is succeeded by light 
breezes from the land, especially from mountains 
surrounding gulphs; but at sun-rise the north- 
west begins again 1 . The little creek in which 
our vessel found shelter is called, by the islanders, 
the Bay of Panormo; and there are some insigni- 
ficant ruins upon the rocks above it, which they 
call Panormo Castle'. The only inhabitants we 
dent Shep- 
herds. saw were parties of men leading uninterruptedly 
a pastoral life, without paying any tax, either to 
(1) Mr. Spenser Smith, brother of Sir Sidney Smit7t, informed the 
author that he was an entire month employed in endeavouring to effect 
a passage from Rhodes to Sianchio: the north-west wind prevailed all 
the time with such force, that the vessel in which he sailed could not 
double Cape Cno. 
(2) Toumefort mentions this litt.e harbour, under the name of 
PANORMO. (Voy. da Levant, torn. I. p. 248. Lyon, 1717.) None of the 
ports of Naxos are proper for the reception of large vessels, and there- 
fore it is that Tavermer says the island has no ports. 
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