14 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, uroke), if they venture out at noon without the 
precaution of carrying an umbrella. The inha- 
bitants, especially of the lower order, wrap 
their heads as if exposed to the rigour of a 
severe winter; being always covered with a 
turban, over which, in their journeys, they place 
a thick shawl, many times folded. The great 
heat experienced upon the eastern coasts of 
Cyprus is owing to two causes ; to the situation 
of the island with respect to the Syrian, Arabian, 
and Lyhian deserts ; and to its mountainous 
nature, preventing the cooler winds, the west 
and north-west, from the low shores to the east 
and north-east. 
We had scarcely entered the bay, when we 
observed to the north-east a lurid haze, as if 
the atmosphere "was on fire ; and suddenly from 
that quarter a hurricane took us, that laid the 
Ceres upon her beam-ends. At the time of this 
squall we endeavoured to ascertain the tem- 
perature of the blast. We found it to be so 
scorching, that the skin instantly peeled from 
our lips ; a tendency to sneeze was also excited, 
accompanied with great pain in the eyes, and 
chapping of the hands and face. The metallic 
scale of the thermometer, suspended in a port- 
hole to windward, was kept in a horizontal 
position by the violence of the gale ; and the 
