. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 302 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY caves near the bases of the cliffs. Nature there provided habi-tations ; the holy men, in some way, scrambled up, closed thecave entrances with wooden walls, and constructed crude-jointed ladders which gave access to their lofty retreats, orat will could be dra^^■n up, to insure complete in those days hermit-hunting was a fashionable pur-suit ; the poor saints found that they were as much hated. THE PENEUS AND PINDUS RANGE and maltreated by the warlike lords of the province, as theywere respected and kindly treated by the
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 302 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY caves near the bases of the cliffs. Nature there provided habi-tations ; the holy men, in some way, scrambled up, closed thecave entrances with wooden walls, and constructed crude-jointed ladders which gave access to their lofty retreats, orat will could be dra^^■n up, to insure complete in those days hermit-hunting was a fashionable pur-suit ; the poor saints found that they were as much hated. THE PENEUS AND PINDUS RANGE and maltreated by the warlike lords of the province, as theywere respected and kindly treated by the superstitious peas-antry. Their caves were too well within the reach of theirpersecutors, among whom the Turks were to be numbered afew generations later. The pressing need of greater securitydrove them slowly skyward ; from cave to cave they ascended,ever spreading the network of swinging wooden ladders. The
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