. The Burton Holmes lectures;. oung man, they said, need rise for one who has no sonsto return the courtesy in after years. The day begins to wane while we are still high in thismountain region. And accordingly we halt at a villagecalled Ladha, where the thoughts of my English companionsturn toward tea, for it is five oclock. Every day religiouslyat the stroke of five the author and the artist begin theirdevotions, and the incense of the fragiant tea-leaf rises fromthe shrines, or groves, or from the wayside inns of the rooms we are to occupy are stripped of alldoubtful furnitu
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. oung man, they said, need rise for one who has no sonsto return the courtesy in after years. The day begins to wane while we are still high in thismountain region. And accordingly we halt at a villagecalled Ladha, where the thoughts of my English companionsturn toward tea, for it is five oclock. Every day religiouslyat the stroke of five the author and the artist begin theirdevotions, and the incense of the fragiant tea-leaf rises fromthe shrines, or groves, or from the wayside inns of the rooms we are to occupy are stripped of alldoubtful furniture, the floors are washed, the cobwebs dusteddown. Then our apartments are refurnished with our ownbelongings, beds and bedding, rugs and chairs and tables. THE LADIES OF LADHA te. THK MOUNTAINS ()!• MKSSKNIA GRECIAN JOURNEYS 1/3 Thanks to the care of Papadopoulos we sleep in peace, arare experience for the traveler in Greece ; and thanks tothe culinary skill of Gregorio, we dine supremely well, like-wise a rare experience. The traveler who does not take acook with him into the Peloponnesus should leave also hisappetite at home. Early next morning we resume our journey toward thevalleys of Messenia. The scenery en route is marvelouslywild and beautiful. To the left lie the unconquered regionsof the Maniotes. Herodotus speaks of that long peninsula,as the rugged nurse of liberty. Even while all the restof Greece was under Turkish rule, the Maniotes were prac-
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