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with the prows resting on the beach: having CHAP. 
done this, they place the mast lengthwise across , ,'.. / 
the prow and the poop, and spread the sail over 
it, so as to form a tent; then beneath these 
tents they sing their songs, drinking wine freely, 
and accompanying their voices with the lyre or 
three-stringed viol: Such a concert greeted our 
arrival. Being told that a Latin archbishop 
resided in the place, we paid him a visit. The 
town makes a neat appearance from the harbour, Towi > <* 
_ Naxos. 
but has altogether the character 01 an antient 
Greek city when it is entered; the streets being 
irregular, deep, narrow, and dirty. We found 
upon the mart, near the shore, large heaps of 
the most enormous green citrons we had ever 
seen, ready to be removed on board some boats 
waiting to convey this kind of freightage to Con- 
stantinople. They are valued principally for 
their very thick rind, of which a green sweet- 
meat is prepared: but we could hardly have 
credited an account of the size to which this 
fruit here attains. Some of these citrons were 
as large as a man's head, and of the most 
singular forms; consisting almost wholly of the 
rind, with very little juice in any of them. The 
archbishop received us very politely, and pre- 
pared a dinner for us ; but we begged to make 
the best use of our time, and therefore declined 
