. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 174 GRECIAN JOURNEYS. AT THE \VI;L1. tically free. They hurled perpetual defiance at the Turk,who never really conquered them. As for tribute when theydid occasionally consent to pay it, a Maniote warrior thrustat the trembling tax-collector a little purse of golden coinsuspended from the point of a naked sword. There also thevendetta flourished and with a fiercer zeal than that of eventhe Corsicans the Maniotes avenged their family route, however, leads us into more peaceful terri-tory ; and early in the afternoon our caravan enters the busymodern str
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 174 GRECIAN JOURNEYS. AT THE \VI;L1. tically free. They hurled perpetual defiance at the Turk,who never really conquered them. As for tribute when theydid occasionally consent to pay it, a Maniote warrior thrustat the trembling tax-collector a little purse of golden coinsuspended from the point of a naked sword. There also thevendetta flourished and with a fiercer zeal than that of eventhe Corsicans the Maniotes avenged their family route, however, leads us into more peaceful terri-tory ; and early in the afternoon our caravan enters the busymodern streets of a thriving seaport town, the present capi-tal of old Messenia, the town of Kalamata. For all thearchitecture tells us we might be in Italy or Spain or southern GRECIAN JOURNEYS 1/5
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