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A CRUSADE IN THE EAST, 
the rigging and iron rods; the thing is fixed; we must stop 
for twelve hours. 
A sorry twelve hours it was for second-class passengers. 
Time, however, stops for no class ; it passed eventually ; and 
we once more went foaming along on our way. At Mit.ylene 
we touched to land some passengers, and next morning we 
were in sight of Smyrna. From day to day, after our de¬ 
parture from Smyrna, we enjoyed a continual feast of scenery 
along the shores of Asia Minor; sweeping past islands, and 
towns, and towering mountains, in an atmosphere of Oriental 
richness, and out again upon a slumbering sea. 
At Rhodes we spent a day not soon to be forgotten in our 
pilgrimage. The picturesque beauty of the island; the de¬ 
serted and time-worn aspect of the town; the old houses 
ornamented with the armorial bearings of the Knights of 
Jerusalem ; the strange, piratical appearance of the Greek 
population, afforded us ample material for enjoyment and 
observation during our brief stay. 
On the following day we cast anchor opposite the town of 
Larneca in the Island of Cyprus. What time we had here 
VIEW IN LARNECA. 
