Prostitutes. 
60 CYPRUS. 
GHAP. beggars. The guard demands a toll from all 
V— — V ' Greeks passing through. As we rode into the 
ment^of towu, wc met a long train of women, dressed 
in white robes, the beautiful costume of the 
capital, filling the air with their lamentations. 
Some of them were of the middle age, but all 
were handsome : as they advanced, they ex- 
posed their faces and breasts to public view, 
tearing their hair, and weeping piteously. In 
the midst of the procession rode a Turk upon 
an ass, smoking his long pipe in the most tran- 
quil manner, and wholly indifferent to their cries. 
Upon inquiring the cause of this tumult, we were 
told that these women were all prostitutes, 
whom the Governor had banished the city, and 
whom they were therefore conducting be^^ond 
the gates. Their dress was modelled after a 
very antient form, and highly elegant : it con- 
sisted entirely of fine white linen, so disposed 
as to veil at once the whole figure^ unless when 
purposely cast aside ; when it fell to the ground 
in long graceful folds. 
Palace of \yg went to the house oi Si3:nor Sekis, (the 
the English " ^ 
Draiioman. English Dragomau, as he is vulgarly called,) a 
rich Armenian merchant, who enjoys the English 
protection for transacting whatsoever business 
their nation may have with the Governor. 
His house was in all respects a palace. 
