ISLAND OF ZIA. 165 
manner of building gives to the place a very CHAP. 
novel and extraordinary appearance. The 
citadel is upon the left, to a person entering by 
the narrow pass that leads to the town; and 
here, says Tournefort 1 , sixty Turks, armed only 
with two muskets, defended themselves against 
the whole Venetian army. The ravages com- 
mitted by the Russians, when their fleet visited ^"the 
this island during the reign of Catherine the Russl ' ans ' 
Second, were even yet the subject of conver- 
sation. The inhabitants told us that their 
houses were entirely stripped by them. The 
specious promises which they held out to the 
people of Greece are now seen in their true light 
by that people, and they will not again become 
the dupes of any Scythian treaty. Sonnini says 
they had rendered the very name of Liberty so 
odious at Paros, that the inhabitants would hear 
no proposals for their deliverance from the 
power of the Turks ; they preferred Turkish des- 
potism to Russian emancipation. " Armed," says 
he 2 , " in appearance for the purpose of restoring 
to the Greeks their antient liberty, they (the 
Russians) became their scourge." Surely the 
examples of national perfidy they have afforded 
(1) Voy. du Lev. torn. II. p, 15. 
(2) Travels in Greece and Turkey, p. 454. Lmd.lZOl, 
