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





















































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I did not see the start, as a person with an excess of zeal had
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I Did Not See The Start, As A Person With An "Excess Of Zeal" Had Started It With A Crowd Of Madmen Without Orders, And I Was Only A Late Spectator Some Hours After Its Arrival Opposite Craddock's Hotel.

It rather resembled a ship that had been in bad weather and in collision with a few steamers.

How many water-spouts it had carried away I never heard. The fore-axle was broken, as it appeared that in rounding a corner it had been dragged by main force upon the curbstone about sixteen inches high, from which it had bumped violently down. It had then been backed against a water-spout, which had gone completely through what sailors would term the "stern." One shutter was split in two pieces, and one window smashed. Altogether, what with bruises, scratches, broken axle, and other damages, my van looked ten years older since the morning.

Fortunately among the Europeans who had flocked to Cyprus since the British occupation was a French blacksmith, whose forge was only a few yards from Craddock's Hotel, where my wrecked vessel blocked the way. I had a new fore axle-tree made, and strengthened the hinder axle. I also fitted a bullock-pole, instead of shafts, for a pair of oxen; the springs I bound up with iron wire shrunk on while red-hot. I took out the stove, as it was not necessary, and its absence increased the space; and I inserted a ventilator in the roof in place of the chimney.

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