56 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, son and another traveller, joined our party 
w— y^ ' upon the road. The Hadgi, becoming blind, 
had been compelled to resign his place, and 
lived at Limasol. This respectable old man, 
although deprived of sight, was in the habit of 
journeying from one part of the island to the 
other, and knew every part of it. He said that 
the inhabitants were shamefully oppressed. 
viUagc of rpj^^ vencrablc pair with whom we rested in 
AUicrt. ^ 
the village of Atdtn ' were the parents of our 
mule-drivers, and owners of the mules. They 
made us welcome to their homely supper, by 
placing two planks across a couple of benches, 
and setting thereon boiled pumpkins, eggs, and 
some wine of the island m a hollow gourd. 
Mills. We observed upon the ground the sort of 
stones used for grinding corn, called Querns in 
Scotland, common also in Lapland, and in all 
parts of Palcestine. These are the primaeval 
mills of the world ; and they are still found in 
all corn countries, where rude and antient 
customs have not been liable to those changes 
introduced by refinement. The employment 
of grinding with them is confined solely to 
females; and the practice illustrates the obser- 
(l) Mariti writes theuauie of this place /^<«)^. Sec vol. I. p. 87. 
