Cyprus, As I Saw It In 1879 By Sir Samuel White Baker





















































 -  The native
Cypriote does not purchase at European shops; his wants are few; the
smallest piece of soap will last - Page 25
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The Native Cypriote Does Not Purchase At European Shops; His Wants Are Few; The Smallest Piece Of Soap Will Last An Indefinite Period; He Is Frugal To An Extreme Degree; And If He Has Desires, He Curbs Such Temptations And Hoards His Coin.

Thus, as the natives did not purchase, and all Europeans were sellers without buyers, there was no alternative but to shut the shutters.

This was a species of commercial suicide which made Larnaca a place of departed spirits; in which unhappy state it remains to the present hour. Even the club was closed.

CHAPTER II.

THE GIPSY-VANS ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES.

My gipsy-van was not of doubtful character. I had purchased it direct from the gipsies in England, and it had been specially arranged for the Cyprus journey by Messrs. Glover Bros. of Dean Street, Soho, London. It had been painted and varnished with many coats both inside and out, and nobody, unless an experienced gipsy, would have known that it was not newly born from the maker's yard. Originally it had been constructed for shafts, as one horse was considered sufficient upon the roads of England, but when it arrived in Cyprus it appeared to have grown during the voyage about two sizes larger than when it was last seen. As the small animals of Larnaca passed by, where my lovely van blocked up the entire street, and forced the little creatures upon the footpath, they looked in comparison as though they had just been disembarked upon Mount Ararat from the original Noah's ark, represented by the gipsy-van!

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